Minister promises a recovery plan for dentistry will be 'published shortly'

Andrea recognised that more needed to be done to improve accessibility to dentistry and pledged the “dentistry recovery plan will be published shortly, setting out a big package of change.”

In the meantime, she explained that a package of reforms has already been implemented. These changes have resulted in “1.7m more adults being seen, 800,000 more children being seen and a 23 per cent increase in NHS activity in the past year.”

Rachel Maskell, the minister for York Central, replied, “We were promised “before the summer”, we were promised “after the summer”, we were promised “before Christmas”, we were promised “soon” and now we have been promised “shortly”. The reality is that Labour has a plan, and the government does not. In York, we cannot get an NHS dentist either… My constituents have nowhere to go. What is the minister going to do to ensure that my constituents can access NHS dentistry?”