27 NOV 2024
Consistent with a brand new file from the Nationwide Audit Workplace (NAO), the dental restoration plan introduced in February 2024 with the purpose that “everybody who wishes to look a dentist will be capable to,” is not going to ship an extra 1.5 million remedies by means of March 2025. Despite the fact that completed would nonetheless imply 2.6 million fewer remedies in comparison to six years in the past.
The file additionally unearths that, in line with NHS England (NHSE) research, fewer new sufferers have won remedy every month for the reason that plan’s implementation, in comparison to the similar length within the earlier 12 months.
Get entry to to NHS dentistry throughout England stays beneath pre-pandemic ranges, with 40% of adults recorded as having noticed an NHS dentist within the 24 months to March 2024, in comparison to 49% within the 24 months previous to the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic. There also are 483 fewer dentists offering some NHS care in comparison to 2019-20.
By way of August 2024, the Division for Well being & Social Care (DHSC) and NHSE had s…


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