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Dental Services: Contracts

Question for Department of Health and Social Care

UIN 21096, tabled on 18 December 2024

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what the uplift will be to general dental service contracts for 2024-25; and what his planned timetable is to apply such uplift.

Answered on

8 January 2025

The independent pay review body for doctors and dentists recommended a 6% pay uplift for 2024/25. The Government accepted the recommendation and has proposed that National Health Service primary care dentistry contract values be uplifted by 4.64%, net of pay (6%) and expenses (1.68%) elements.

The Government is acting to consider and implement the overall uplift to contract values as soon as possible.