Funding Dental Services

Part of 1. Questions to the Minister for Finance and Trefnydd – in the Senedd at 2:00 pm on 8 January 2020.

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Photo of Rebecca Evans Rebecca Evans Labour 2:00, 8 January 2020

This year, we're providing over £146 million to the Welsh NHS for the provision of primary care dental services. We are seeing increased use of dental services, which is a good thing. So, the latest published data shows that 1.7 million people were regularly accessing NHS primary care dentistry, and that's 42,000 more people than was the case five years before the latest figures. We now have over 1,500 dentists working in the NHS in Wales compared to 1,439 back in 2014, so we are gradually seeing an increase in the number of dentists, but also a corresponding increase in the number of patients accessing those services.