{"value":{"id":1680596,"askingMemberId":4653,"askingMember":null,"house":"Commons","memberHasInterest":false,"dateTabled":"2024-01-08T00:00:00","dateForAnswer":"2024-01-10T00:00:00","uin":"8553","questionText":"To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps she is taking to help improve (a) recruitment and (b) retention of dentists.","answeringBodyId":17,"answeringBodyName":"Department of Health and Social Care","isWithdrawn":false,"isNamedDay":false,"groupedQuestions":[],"answerIsHolding":false,"answerIsCorrection":false,"answeringMemberId":4117,"answeringMember":null,"correctingMemberId":null,"correctingMember":null,"dateAnswered":"2024-01-16T00:00:00","answerText":"<p>As set out in the NHS Long Term Workforce Plan, we are going to increase dentistry training places by 40% so that there are over 1,100 places by 2031/32. To support this ambition, we will expand places 24% by 2028/29, taking the overall number that year to 1,000 places.</p><p>As the Workforce Plan sets out, the National Health Service and the Government will explore whether a tie-in would ensure that dentists spend a greater proportion of their time delivering NHS dental care.</p><p>We are working on our Dentistry Recovery Plan, to be published shortly, which will address how we continue to improve access, particularly for new patients; and how we make NHS work more attractive to ensure NHS dentists are incentivised to deliver NHS care.</p>","originalAnswerText":"","comparableAnswerText":"","dateAnswerCorrected":null,"dateHoldingAnswer":null,"attachmentCount":0,"heading":"Dentistry: Labour Turnover and Recruitment","attachments":[],"groupedQuestionsDates":[]},"links":[{"rel":"self","href":"/Questions/1680596","method":"GET"}]}