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Future of the NHS

Proceeding contribution from Neil O'Brien (Conservative) in the House of Commons on Thursday, 23 February 2023. It occurred during Backbench debate on Future of the NHS.

I want to make a bit of progress. I am sorry, but I will perhaps come back to the hon. Lady in a bit.

Let me complete the thought on primary care. We will also be saying more about dentistry, which was an issue raised by the hon. Member for Bolton South East. She mentioned some of the reforms that we made. We are trying to make dental practice more attractive. We started reforming the contract and creating more unit of dental activity bands to better reflect the fair cost of NHS work and so incentivise it. We have introduced the minimum UDA value to help where it is particularly low. We are letting dentists deliver 110% of their contracted UDAs to encourage more activity. We have changed the law to make it easier for overseas dentists to do NHS work here, which someone mentioned earlier. Plans are advancing for centres for dental development in Ipswich and places such as Cumbria. But there is much more to do, as the hon. Lady said, and we will be saying more about that soon.

On adult social care, we are taking decisive action, with record investment, making available up to £7.5 billion over the next two years to support adult social care and discharge. That historic funding boost—that record investment in adult social care—will put the system on a much stronger financial footing and help local authorities to address pressures in the sector.

Type
Proceeding contribution
Reference
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Session
2022-23
Chamber / Committee
House of Commons chamber
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