Dental Services

(asked on 17th December 2020) - View Source

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many NHS orthodontic procedures have been carried out in in (a) primary and (b) secondary care in each region in each of the last five years.


Answered by
Jo Churchill Portrait
Jo Churchill
This question was answered on 27th January 2021

Data on the units of orthodontic activity from 2015-16 to 2019-20 by National Health Service commissioning region is available at the following link:

https://digital.nhs.uk/data-and-information/publications/statistical/nhs-dental-statistics/2019-20-annual-report

Data for orthodontic waiting lists is unavailable.

NHS England and NHS Improvement continue to discuss the various approaches to management and restoration of orthodontic services with the profession.

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