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<p>No specific assessment has been made. However, NHS England asked dental practices
to return to full delivery of contracted activity from July 2022, including in <ins
class="ministerial">Batley and Spen</ins><del class="ministerial">Lancaster and Fleetwood</del>.
In September, we announced ‘Our plan for patients’, which outlines how we will meet
oral health needs and increase access to dental care, including in Batley and Spen.</p><p>The
plan includes improvements to ensure dentists are renumerated fairly for more complex
work, allowing greater flexibility to reallocate resources and to utilise dentists
with greater capacity to deliver National Health Service treatment, whilst enabling
full use of the dental team. The plan also includes streamlining processes for overseas
dentists and holding the local NHS to account for dentistry provision. In addition,
Health Education England is also reforming dental education to improve the recruitment
and retention of dental professionals.</p>
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