Subject	Predicate	Object
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	answer has question	avwmq6cX
	answer has answering person	Neil John O'Brien
	answer text	<p>Community dental services (CDS) offer dental care to vulnerable patients who are referred by a general practitioners or Social Worker and cannot be treated in a general National Health Service dental practice. Treatments are provided in settings including hospitals, specialist health centres and mobile clinics, as well as through home visits or visits in nursing and care homes.</p><p> </p><p>NHS England is responsible for commissioning primary care dentistry to meet the needs of the local population, including for people in care homes. Many of the dentistry commissioning functions undertaken by NHS England will transfer to integrated care boards (ICBs) from April 2023. ICBs will be responsible for meeting the needs of its local population by working with patient groups, including on communication needs. NHS England has made available to commissioners an Assurance Framework to provide assurances on commissioning.</p>
	answer given date	2023-02-14
	answer has answering body	Department of Health and Social Care
	written answer has answering body	Department of Health and Social Care
Department of Health and Social Care	answering body has written answer	2rTArx5S
Department of Health and Social Care	answering body has answer	2rTArx5S
avwmq6cX	question has answer	2rTArx5S
Neil John O'Brien	answering person has answer	2rTArx5S