Dental Services
(asked on 20th January 2022) - View Source
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what comparative assessment he has made of trends in the level of dental patients having (a) dental treatment and (b) dental treatment in hospital in (i) 2021 and (ii) 2019.
Answered by
Maria Caulfield
Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Department for Business and Trade) (Minister for Women)
The number of National Health Service courses of treatment delivered in primary care dental practices in England decreased from 38,281,000 in 2019/20 to 11,985,000 in 2020/21.
The number of outpatient attendances for dental medicine specialities, restorative dentistry, paediatric dentistry and orthodontics has decreased from 1,365,742 to 735,080 from 2019/20 to 2020/21. Similarly, the number of admissions has decreased from 38,109 to 17,654.