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gW3o7l4A	a	Resource
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		Written answer
	answer has question	QodwB5uE
	answer has answering person	Neil John O'Brien
	answer text	<p>We have assessed the utilisation of underspends in National Health Service dentistry budgets on NHS dentistry services. NHS England has provided guidance for integrated care boards (ICBs) that requires dental funding to be ringfenced, with any unused resources re-directed to improve NHS dental access in the first instance. A schedule setting out the dental ringfence has been issued to ICBs. NHS England’s 2023/24 revenue finance and contracting guidance, which provides more detail, is available at the following link:</p><p><a href="https://www.england.nhs.uk/publication/2023-24-revenue-finance-and-contracting-guidance/" target="_blank">https://www.england.nhs.uk/publication/2023-24-revenue-finance-and-contracting-guidance/</a></p>
	answer given date	2023-06-05
	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	gW3o7l4A
Department of Health and Social Care	answering body has answer	gW3o7l4A
QodwB5uE	question has answer	gW3o7l4A
Neil John O'Brien	answering person has answer	gW3o7l4A