Department of Health and Social Care written question – answered at on 4 August 2025.
Natalie Fleet
Labour, Bolsover
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to help improve access to NHS dentistry in Bolsover Constituency.
Natalie Fleet
Labour, Bolsover
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the adequacy of dental care provision in Bolsover Constituency.
Natalie Fleet
Labour, Bolsover
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many additional urgent dental appointments have been made available in Bolsover Constituency in 2025.
Stephen Kinnock
Minister of State (Department of Health and Social Care)
The responsibility for commissioning primary care services, including National Health Service dentistry, to meet the needs of the local population has been delegated to the integrated care boards (ICBs) across England. For the Bolsover Constituency, this is the Derby and Derbyshire ICB.
We will deliver 700,000 extra urgent dental appointments per year, and ICBs have been making extra appointments available from 1 April 2025. The Derby and Derbyshire ICB is expected to deliver 16,298 additional urgent dental appointments as part of the scheme.
ICBs are recruiting posts through the Golden Hello scheme. This recruitment incentive will see dentists receiving payments of £20,000 to work in those areas that need them most for three years.
The Government’s ambition is to deliver fundamental contract reform before the end of this Parliament.
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