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	answer has question	aK1DfK8t
	answer has answering person	Neil John O'Brien
	answer text	<p>NHS England is responsible for commissioning primary care dentistry to meet the needs of the local population. Many of these functions will transfer to integrated care boards (ICBs) from April 2023.</p><p>We have assessed the merits of ringfencing National Health Service dental funding provisions. NHS England has provided guidance for 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	2023-03-14
	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	gtOpqshl
Department of Health and Social Care	answering body has answer	gtOpqshl
aK1DfK8t	question has answer	gtOpqshl
Neil John O'Brien	answering person has answer	gtOpqshl