Department of Health and Social Care written question – answered at on 30 July 2024.
Alice Macdonald
Labour/Co-operative, Norwich North
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what estimate his Department has made of the number of open dentistry practices that accept new adult NHS patients in Norwich North Constituency on the (a) most recent date for which figures are available and (b) same date in 2010.
Stephen Kinnock
Minister of State (Department of Health and Social Care)
While data for 2010 is not held centrally, as of 10 July 2024, there were nine open dentistry practices in the Norwich North Constituency, none of which were showing as accepting new adult patients. This data is sourced from the Find a Dentist website, and is matched to constituencies based on the postcode data shown on the website, which is available at the following link:
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