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The NAO’s report found that the plan was not on track to deliver the expected number of additional courses of treatment.37 When the report was published in November 2024: • fewer new patients had been treated under the NPP than in the equivalent period in the previous year; • no data was available on the UDA uplift; 38 • only one ‘golden hello’ dentist had been appointed; and • mobile dental vans had been abandoned as a national initiative and left for local commissioners to procure if they wished to.39 32 DHSC, Consultation outcome: consultation on community water fluoridation expansion in the north east of England: government response, published 7 March 2025 33 Q 17 34 C&AG’s Report, Figure 10 35 C&AG’s Report, para 13 36 C&AG’s Report, para 2 37 C&AG’s Report, para 16 38 C&AG’s Report, para 16 39 C&AG’s Report, Figure 11 12