Commissioning NHS primary care dental services: meeting the NHS operating framework objectives

High level guidance launched by Ann Keen, Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Health Services, on 16 January 2008, sets out the Government's commitment to maintaining and expanding NHS dental services and the expectations on the NHS to deliver year on year increases in access, as set out in the NHS Operating Framework 2008/09 and to provide more detail on what this means for commissioners and providers in developing dental services locally, including managing the 2009 transition.

(Published January 2008, 5 pages)