BDA welcomes Health Committee inquiry into NHS dentistry

The Committee will be inviting written evidence on a wide range of questions including:

The BDA has been working to expose the deficiencies in dental access, funding and strategy and raise the profile of dentistry in parliament. The inquiry follows repeated conversations with both the chair, Dr Sarah Wollaston, and other members of the committee.

This news follows the BDA securing an inquiry and a hearing from the Public Accounts Committee, which has already delivered a U-turn on the government’s controversial ‘fines first’ approach to NHS penalty charges.

BDA chair, Mick Armstrong, commented, “We have pulled out all the stops to push NHS dentistry up the political agenda. Now the Health and Social Care Committee has a chance to shine a light on a system that is failing patients and practitioners across England.

“The Government has yet to wake up to the full scale of the crisis in NHS dental services. But on contracts and funding, on access and recruitment, we will use this inquiry as another chance to make the point that problems made in Westminster can only be fixed in Westminster.”