Dental Services

(asked on 21st February 2024) - View Source

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how much (a) NHS and (b) private work was completed by GDC registered dentists who qualified (i) in the UK, (ii) overseas and (iii) in total in each of the last 10 years.


Answered by
Andrea Leadsom Portrait
Andrea Leadsom
Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department of Health and Social Care)
This question was answered on 27th March 2024

Primary care dentistry in the National Health Service is delivered through contracts structured around Units of Dental Activity (UDAs). Each treatment is allocated a number of UDAs in proportion to the complexity and amount of work required. The following table shows the number of UDAs delivered by dentists who have qualified within the United Kingdom and outside thereof whilst working in the NHS in England for 2016/17 onwards:

Year

UK Qualified UDA Delivered

Non-UK Qualified UDA Delivered

Other UDA Delivered

Total UDA Delivered

2016/17

48,825,392

26,394,403

10,644,608

85,864,403

2017/18

48,640,153

26,323,343

8,363,069

83,326,565

2018/19

49,482,862

27,192,292

6,528,618

83,203,772

2019/20

48,144,326

27,032,548

4,666,855

79,843,728

2020/21

15,260,168

8,265,064

927,591

24,452,823

2021/22

35,781,811

20,777,093

1,210,218

57,769,122

2022/23

43,918,652

25,763,340

486,695

70,168,687

Source: NHS Business Services Authority

Notes:

  1. The dentist’s region of qualification is based on that as provided on the General Dental Council (GDC) register. It is important to note that not all dentists have a country of qualification on the GDC register as supplied to the NHS Business Services Authority, and so these dentists are placed into “other” as their region of qualification.
  2. The Department does not hold data on how much private dental work was completed in the last 10 years.
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