In response to the Commons Liaison Committee on December 19, 2023, the prime minister said the plan, first pledged in April and widely expected before summer recess, would come in 2024, although he would not commit to a date.
"It will be in the new year,” he said. “Obviously, there's £3bn that's been invested in NHS dentistry with a reformed contract, which is helping.” The BDA stressed that the PM has no credible basis for citing a budget largely unchanged in a decade and tweaks to the failed contract, fuelling the exodus from the service as ‘progress’.
News follows the government’s failure to sign up to fundamental reforms proposed by the Health and Social Care Committee, and Nuffield Trust research that suggests universal access to NHS dentistry is effectively gone for good.
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