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<p>We currently invest more than £3 billion in National Health Service dental services
each year. We are committed to protecting this funding for dentistry purposes, and
will ringfence this funding in 2024 to 2025. We will issue guidance to the integrated
care boards (ICBs) shortly, through NHS England’s 2024 to 2025 revenue finance and
contracting guidance. To ensure compliance against this requirement, and to strengthen
oversight of funding that is used to deliver access to NHS dental care, NHS England
will meet with, and collect monthly returns from, all ICBs, to establish current and
planned spend against the ringfenced dental allocations budget. Data is not held centrally
for dental budgets in prior years.</p>
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