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<p>‘Our plan for patients’, announced in September 2022, outlines how we will meet oral health needs and increase access to National Health Service dental care. These changes have been implemented, including through the issue of NHS England’s guidance, ‘Building dental teams: Supporting the use of skill mix in NHS general dental practice – long guidance’. It supports utilisation of the different disciplines of dental practice professionals in providing NHS dental care, and the removal of administrative barriers for more effective use of this skills-mix. The guidance is available at the following link:</p><p><a href="https://www.england.nhs.uk/long-read/building-dental-teams-supporting-the-use-of-skill-mix-in-nhs-general-dental-practice-long-guidance/" target="_blank">https://www.england.nhs.uk/long-read/building-dental-teams-supporting-the-use-of-skill-mix-in-nhs-general-dental-practice-long-guidance/</a></p><p>Other changes include improving the 2006 NHS dental contract to ensure fairer remuneration for practices providing complex treatment, enabling practices to deliver more activity than they are contracted to deliver, up to 110% of contract value, and introducing a minimum Unit of Dental Activity value of £23.</p><p>We are planning additional reforms of the NHS Dental System to be announced later this year, with a separate long-term plan for the NHS workforce, which will include measures to strengthen and build capacity in the NHS dental workforce.</p> |