Policy paper

NHS dental contract reform: feedback wanted

An update on the development of NHS dental contract reform.

• From: Department of Health and Social Care
• Published: 15 August 2013

This was published under the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government

Applies to England

Documents

Dental contract reform programme: early findings and opportunity to give feedback

PDF, 1.21 MB, 31 pages

Dental contract reform programme: early findings and opportunity to give feedback (overview)

PDF, 783 KB, 16 pages

Details

These documents provide an overview of the work to develop the dental contract reform, including the pilot programme, and give the chance to feedback on themes of the reform. You can feed back by using the links in the documents. The pilots are testing a prevention based care pathway, which is at the centre of the contract reform. The executive summary outlines the work on the contract development.

Reform is aimed at improving oral health and increasing access to NHS dentistry. There will be a consultation exercise on the reform, likely to be in 2014.

Published 15 August 2013