Dental Services
(asked on 11th January 2023) - View Source
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what proportion of 2019 dentistry (a) appointments and (b) treatment took place in (a) 2020, (b) 2021 and (c) 2022.
The number of unique dentistry patients seen in 2019 was 23,655,188. 56% of this number of patients were seen for treatment in 2020 and 70% in 2021.
The following table shows the proportion of courses of treatment compared to 2019.
Year | Band 1 (%) | Band 2 (%) | Band 3 (%) | Urgent (%) | Other (%) |
2020/21 | 21 | 30 | 27 | 98 | 51 |
2021/22 | 60 | 75 | 76 | 104 | 69 |
Note:
Due to the nature of the dental contract, courses of treatment have been used, rather than the number of appointments alone, which is not collected. The last weeks of 2019/20 may have been affected by the COVID-19 pandemic.