Speeches

Julie Cooper – 2016 Parliamentary Question to the Department of Health

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Julie Cooper on 2016-01-18.

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many people in (a) Burnley, (b) Lancashire and (c) the North West had an appointment with an NHS dentist in (i) 2010, (ii) 2011, (iii) 2012, (iv) 2013, (v) 2014 and (vi) 2015.

Alistair Burt

Information is not available in the format requested.

The table below shows the unique number of patients who received National Health Service dental care in the previous 24 months. An equivalent measure covering the 12 month period is not available.

1 April 2008 – 31 March 2010

1 April 2009 – 31 March 2011

1 April 2010 – 31 March 2012

1 April 2011- 31 March 2013

1 April 2012 – 31 March 2014

1 April 2013 – 31 March 2015

NHS East Lancashire Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG)

218,979

222,038

Lancashire Local Authority

671,482

670,931

NHS England North (Lancashire and Greater Manchester)

2,496,149

2,508,845

East Lancashire Primary Care Trust (PCT)

186,295

200,034

210,839

219,406

North West Strategic Health Authority (SHA)

4,180,855

4,251,505

4,302,218

4,323,082

Source: Health and Social Care Information Centre (HSCIC)

Notes:

  1. Includes patients seen by an NHS dentist, including work undertaken by dentists under vocational training and orthodontic patients. Does not cover dental treatment carried out in hospitals under Hospital Dental Services, nor under services provided privately.
  2. Number of patients seen shows the number of individual patients who received care or treatment from an NHS dentist at least once in a 24 month period (patients are counted on their first visit only, e.g. if a patient has visited the dentist twice, they will only appear in the patients seen data set once).
  3. HSCIC dental data are not available at the geographies requested. The latest information is available at CCG, LA and NHS Geography Region and earlier years are only available at PCT and SHA level.