Dentistry
(asked on 30th January 2023) - 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 dentists there were in England in each of the last five years.
This question was answered on 7th February 2023
NHS Dental Statistics for England, published by NHS Digital, includes information on the number of dentists undertaking National Health Service activity. The number of NHS dentists in each of the last five years is summarised in the table below.
Year | Dentists with NHS Activity |
2017/18 | 24,308 |
2018/19 | 24,545 |
2019/20 | 24,684 |
2020/21 | 23,733 |
2021/22 | 24,272 |
The latest Dental Statistics annual report for 2021-22 can be accessed at the following link (see Annex 1, Table 8a):