Chamber and committees

Recovery of NHS dental services

Background 

The inquiry tracked progress on the aims set out in the NHS Recovery Plan 2021-2026. This included a commitment to return NHS dentistry services to pre-pandemic levels.

The inquiry tracked progress on this commitment, with a focus on the following issues—

• Whether funding has improved ventilation and other equipment; 
• Whether NHS dentistry services have recovered to pre-pandemic levels; and
• How access to services is being targeted in communities that experience health inequalities. 

Read the SPICe blog: NHS Dental Services in Scotland – Braced for change

Your views

The Committee launched a survey to understand dentists’ views of the recovery of NHS services.
 
We wanted to hear from dentists who provide NHS services. The purpose of the survey was to understand dentists’ views of the recovery of NHS services.

View the survey

Read the summary of responses (446KB, pdf) posted 12 June 2023

Oral evidence

The Committee took evidence at the following meetings:

• 15 June 2023
• 22 June 2023
• 29 June 2023

The Committee wrote to the Minister for Public Health and Women's Health on the 5 July 2023.