The Minister of Health has announced that the Ministerial Order establishing the extension of benefits to priority groups will be published in the coming months, to include, before 31 December, children and young people aged 6 to 14 and pregnant women.

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These groups will be followed by people over 14 years of age with disabilities in the first half of 2023, to end the year with all the groups included in the Plan, including people with cancer of the cervicofacial territory.
With a budget of more than 44 million euros, the Oral and Dental Health Plan will benefit more than 7 million people.

The objectives of the new Oral Health Plan are to improve the oral health of the population, to standardise services throughout the country and to guarantee equal access, regardless of the place of residence.

It also forms part of the actions included by the Ministry of Health in Component 18 of the Recovery, Transformation and Resilience Plan and is one of the most important investments among the Spanish Government’s measures to promote Primary Care, along with the 230 million euros for the Digital Health Strategy and the 172 million euros for the Primary and Community Care Action Plan 2022-2023.

Finally, the Minister of Health announced that the Spanish Government is also working, together with organisations such as the World Health Organisation (WHO), to draw up a Strategic Plan that will serve as a basis for guiding and drawing up a future Global Action Plan, which will make it possible to evaluate progress in Oral Health by 2030.

“Oral health is a key area to fulfil the UN mandate included in the 2030 Agenda and to guarantee healthy lives”, Carolina Darias stressed.