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Dental Services: North Devon

Question for Department of Health and Social Care

UIN 900490, tabled on 29 November 2023

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps her Department is taking to help tackle the NHS dentistry backlog in North Devon constituency.

Answered on

5 December 2023

  • In the South-West, NHS England have commissioned additional urgent dental care appointments that people can access via NHS 111.

  • They have also implemented a new pathway called stabilisation dental care to support those who do not have access to a regular dentist but require non-urgent dental care.

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