<p>Health Education England’s Advancing Dental Care report outlined the concept of centres for dental development, to bring together both training and National Health Service dental provision in areas with low access and recruitment and retention difficulties.</p><p>No discussions have been had with Humber and North Yorkshire Integrated Care Board at this stage. Centres for dental development are envisaged to be designed according to local population oral health need, and accordingly developed between integrated care boards (ICBs) such as Humber and North Yorkshire and NHS England, who will be publishing guidance for ICBs later this year.</p>