Dental Services: Cumbria

(asked on 30th January 2018) - View Source

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many and what proportion of children are registered with a dentist in the South Lakeland District Council area.


Answered by
Steve Brine Portrait
Steve Brine
This question was answered on 2nd February 2018

Patients do not have to register to receive National Health Service dental treatment and therefore no data is available on the number or proportion of patients registered with a dentist in the South Lakeland District Council Area for children or adults.

Information is collected on the number and proportion of children and adults who are seen by a dentist in the most recent 12 and 24 months periods respectively. This information is not available for South Lakeland District Council area specifically but is available for Cumbria local authority and North Cumbria Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG).

The latest data is available in the following publication:

http://digital.nhs.uk/catalogue/PUB30159

In the document titled “NHS Dental Statistics for England – 2017/18, First Quarterly Report: Annex 2 (Sub-national patients seen). The data required can be found on tabs A1 (patients seen) and A4 (percentage of the population) (CCG level) and A3 (patients seen) and A6 (percentage of the population) (local authority level).

Information on patients who may be on local waiting lists is not held centrally.

Primary care dentistry is commissioned by NHS England which has a legal duty to commission services to meet local need.

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