Whether the provision in the proposed Health Bill to keep GP practices in the NHS will be extended to general dental practitioners working …

Answered Asked by Mary Scanlon Con Lodged 3 Sep 2008

The question

To ask the Scottish Executive whether the provision in the proposed Health Bill to keep GP practices in the NHS will be extended to general dental practitioners working in private practice.

The answer

Answered by Shona Robison on 16 Sep 2008 · 13 days after it was lodged, on time

General dental practitioners working in private practice are delivering private dentistry rather than NHS dentistry. This is not analogous to commercial companies providing NHS primary medical services.
Most independent general dental practitioners currently undertake a mix of NHS and private dentistry, and we have no plans to legislate to change that.

In the Official Report

No contribution in the Official Report cites S3W-15939 by reference.