Asked by: Baroness Benjamin (Liberal Democrat - Life peer)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask Her Majesty's Government when they will publish the next Adult Dental Health Survey.
Answered by Lord O'Shaughnessy
No decisions have been taken yet on the timing of the next Adult Dental Health Survey.
Asked by: Baroness Benjamin (Liberal Democrat - Life peer)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask Her Majesty's Government whether they plan to extend NHS England's new Starting Well: A Smile4Life Initiative beyond the 13 areas in which it is initially being dleivered.
Answered by Lord O'Shaughnessy
NHS England’s Starting Well programme will work in 13 high needs areas to reach children most at risk of tooth decay who are not currently seeing a dentist. Alongside this, NHS England is also developing a complementary Starting Well Core offer, a commissioning approach designed to facilitate increased access and early preventive care for young children.
The offer will be made available in 2018, with NHS England commissioners making local decisions on use based on their assessment of need locally.
Asked by: Baroness Benjamin (Liberal Democrat - Life peer)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask Her Majesty's Government when they will publiish the next Child Dental Health Survey.
Answered by Lord O'Shaughnessy
The national Child Dental Health Surveys are undertaken every 10 years and the next survey is due to be undertaken in 2023. The last survey for England, Wales and Northern Ireland took place in 2013 and the findings were published in March 2015. A copy of the Children’s Dental Health Survey 2013: Executive Summary is attached.
Asked by: Baroness Benjamin (Liberal Democrat - Life peer)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask Her Majesty’s Government, further to the answer by Lord Prior of Brampton on 31 October (HL Deb, col 426), whether they will consider rolling out the treatment programmes across England if the pilots are successful.
Answered by Lord Prior of Brampton
NHS England, Public Health England and the Department are working together to finalise the scope of the Oral Health Prevention Programme. The Government anticipates that it will include initiatives to help children who are at greater risk of dental disease to attend the dentist at appropriate intervals and to receive high quality care, including prevention, when they attend.
We expect to be able to make an announcement on the areas selected in the coming months. Using data from the latest under five year old survey, detailing decayed, missing and filled teeth, has enabled the identification of areas deemed to have the greatest deprivation.
Pilots are not being established. This is a targeted programme, the learning from which will be available to inform future commissioning in particular areas where needed.
Asked by: Baroness Benjamin (Liberal Democrat - Life peer)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask Her Majesty’s Government, further to the answer by Lord Prior of Brampton on 31 October (HL Deb, col 426) concerning the identification by NHS England of 10 areas of deprivation for special treatment on childhood oral health, when they will announce the areas in which the pilot programme will take place; and on what basis those areas have been selected.
Answered by Lord Prior of Brampton
NHS England, Public Health England and the Department are working together to finalise the scope of the Oral Health Prevention Programme. The Government anticipates that it will include initiatives to help children who are at greater risk of dental disease to attend the dentist at appropriate intervals and to receive high quality care, including prevention, when they attend.
We expect to be able to make an announcement on the areas selected in the coming months. Using data from the latest under five year old survey, detailing decayed, missing and filled teeth, has enabled the identification of areas deemed to have the greatest deprivation.
Pilots are not being established. This is a targeted programme, the learning from which will be available to inform future commissioning in particular areas where needed.
Asked by: Baroness Benjamin (Liberal Democrat - Life peer)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask Her Majesty’s Government, further to the answer by Lord Prior of Brampton on 31 October (HL Deb, col 426) concerning the identification by NHS England of 10 areas of deprivation for special treatment on childhood oral health, what that special treatment will consist of.
Answered by Lord Prior of Brampton
NHS England, Public Health England and the Department are working together to finalise the scope of the Oral Health Prevention Programme. The Government anticipates that it will include initiatives to help children who are at greater risk of dental disease to attend the dentist at appropriate intervals and to receive high quality care, including prevention, when they attend.
We expect to be able to make an announcement on the areas selected in the coming months. Using data from the latest under five year old survey, detailing decayed, missing and filled teeth, has enabled the identification of areas deemed to have the greatest deprivation.
Pilots are not being established. This is a targeted programme, the learning from which will be available to inform future commissioning in particular areas where needed.
Asked by: Baroness Benjamin (Liberal Democrat - Life peer)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask Her Majesty’s Government what is the average cost of a tooth extraction procedure for a five- to nine-year old in an NHS hospital.
Answered by Lord Prior of Brampton
The information is not available in the format requested.
The table below shows the average cost to National Health Service trusts and NHS foundation trusts of providing tooth extractions for patients aged 18 years and under during 2014/15:
HRG Code | HRG description | Unit Cost (£) |
CD06B | Extraction of Multiple Teeth, 18 years and under | 834 |
CD07B | Minor Extraction of Tooth, 18 years and under | 439 |
Source: Reference costs, Department of Health