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CMA launches review of private dentistry

By Liz Wells 05 March 2026

The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has launched a review of the £8bn private dentistry, looking at both essential care and cosmetic treatments, to ensure it is working well for UK consumers.

DENTISTRY

Reforms 'first step towards new era for NHS dentistry', says DHSC

By Lee Peart 16 December 2025

A raft of reforms announced today amount to the ‘most significant modernisation of the NHS dental contract in years’, the Government has claimed.

DENTISTRY

'Dentistry is on its knees', Lib Dems react to rise in tooth decay

By Lee Peart 10 December 2025

The Liberal Democrats have claimed ‘dentistry is on its knees’ after figures revealed a sharp rise in tooth decay since 2009.

DENTISTRY

Latest dental contract for Wales will 'improve access' to NHS dentists

By Liz Wells 24 September 2025

A new dental contract for Wales is set to improve access to NHS dentistry for everyone.

DENTISTRY

Proposed reforms to dental contract will prioritise those with urgent and complex needs

By Liz Wells 08 July 2025

Patients will find it easier to get an urgent care appointment under planned reforms to incentivise dentists to deliver more NHS work and fix the foundations of dentistry.

DENTISTRY

Meeting demand while helping to reduce it

19 May 2025

Dentistry is one area where a shift to population health would be welcome, writes Matthew Taylor, chief executive of the NHS Confederation

PRIMARY CARE

DHSC launches survey to inform NHS dental contract reform

By Liz Wells 16 May 2025

Dentists across England are being urged to take part in a new nationwide survey to help inform the government’s long-term dental reform programme.

DENTISTRY

Lib Dems calls for end to 'dental deserts'

By Lee Peart 14 April 2025

The Liberal Democrats have called for urgent reforms to end a ‘national scandal’ of ‘dental deserts’.

UK GOVERNMENT

Government asks ICBs to offer 700,000 extra urgent dental appointments

By Liz Wells 21 February 2025

NHS England has written to ICBs across the country, directing each to provide thousands of urgent appointments over the next year.

PRIMARY CARE

Action needed as progress on closing oral health gap stalls

By Liz Wells 12 February 2025

Decades of progress on closing the oral health gap between rich and the poor has stalled, new data reveals.

DENTISTRY

Dental recovery plan 'unlikely' to deliver target of 1.5m additional treatments

By Liz Wells 27 November 2024

The dental recovery plan, launched in February 2024 with the aim that 'everyone who needs to see a dentist will be able to,' is unlikely deliver an additional 1.5 million treatments by March 2025, ...