Dental Services
Health
Written answers and statements, 26 October 2009
Claire Curtis-Thomas (Crosby, Labour)
To ask the Secretary of State for Health whether (a) the Minister, (b) his advisers and (c) officials of his Department saw the notes of the visits by the Chief Dental Officer or his representatives to (i) maxillofacial and (ii) dental hospitals which were subsequently used in the production of the report by the Postgraduate Medical Education and Training Board on oral and maxillofacial surgery.
Ann Keen (Parliamentary Under-Secretary, Department of Health; Brentford & Isleworth, Labour)
As the report indicated, the terms of the review did not extend to formal reporting on the visits. Departmental officials who were members of the review group have seen any notes taken. The Postgraduate Medical Education and Training Board is an independent regulatory body.