The plan from the Labour leadership covers both short-term and long-term measures for the service.
It commits to an immediate injection of £100m of funding to expand access to urgent care, with dentists working to a sessional rate. Uptake would not be time-limited and would be recurrent in every year of the next parliament. The professional body says this represents a workable version of the failed policy brought forward last year by the government, where practices were expected to make use of £50m in funds in just over two months during the Omicron Wave. By the cut-off point of April 1, 2022, just £14.1m was spent.
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