Foreign dentists will be recruited to fill NHS “dental deserts”. The Government is set to change how dentists in the UK are approved to practise to increase the number of available appointments.

Exclusive: Watchdog finds sharp rise in number of poorer households forced to pay for fillings and extractions ...

Health commissioners say practices get same funding for check-up as for multiple fillings, creating system where complex ...

In 2024-25, more than £450m was returned, BBC analysis of NHS accounts shows, while nearly £480m was returned the year before ...

More than 3,000 people have been referred to NHS dentists since a report identified areas where patients struggled to access ...

Another 2,400 overseas-trained dentists, many of whom are already living in this country, could be registered annually from 2028/29, according to ministers ...

The Lincolnshire Institute of Dental and Oral Health will train students from September.

The University of Portsmouth is “well placed” to take advantage of the first sustained expansion of dental school places in nearly two decades.

A new £75 payment will replace the current 1.2 UDAs for unscheduled care. For providers to whom the 8.2% applies, this will be credited in 2 parts: a £15 fixed credit per required course of treatment ...

Patients across England are set to benefit from improved access to urgent dental treatment as the government and the NHS ...

University of Dundee stakeholders in a nationwide oral health initiative have plenty to smile about as they celebrate 20 years of improving children’s teeth.

Scottish dental, medical and nursing graduates would have to work in the NHS for five years or repay tuition support under a tie-in proposal.