It is expected that the clinical dental workforce can be used to free up other roles within the health and social care system and help maintain the delivery of other non-coronavirus related essential services.
By strategically redeploying the dental workforce based on needs, the NHS in England will maximise the effectiveness of the existing healthcare workforce, as well as increase capacity where the need is the greatest. Some of the dental workforce may still be required to maintain urgent and emergency dental care access.
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