NHS 111: Dental Health
(asked on 20th March 2024) - View Source
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer of 28 February 2024 to Question 13013 on NHS 111: Dental Health, how many calls NHS 111 received relating to the categories of (a) Toothache without Dental Injury, (b) Dental Problems, (c) Other Dental Problems- Fillings, Crowns Bridges, Appliances etc, (d) Dental Module, (e) Dental Bleeding, (f) Toothache After Dental Injury, (g) Dental Injury and (h) Total volume of Triages with a Dental Symptom in each financial year since 2010-11.
On 7 February 2024, we published Faster, simpler and fairer: our plan to recover and reform NHS dentistry, which is backed by £200 million and will fund approximately 2.5 million additional appointments, or more than 1.5 million additional courses of dental treatment. The plan sets out our actions to improve dental access for patients across the country, and to address the challenges facing National Health Service dentistry.
The following table shows how many NHS 111 calls were received, broken down into the mentioned categories, each year since 2018, the earliest year this data is available:
Symptom Group | 2018/19 | 2019/20 | 2020/21 | 2021/22 | 2022/23 |
Toothache | 625, 582 | 629, 306 | 928,000 | 794,024 | 868, 527 |
Dental Problems | 2,270 | 16, 533 | 34, 377 | 54,738 | 58, 512 |
Other Dental Problems, such as fillings, crowns, bridges, appliances, etc. | 84,095 | 67, 876 | 101,822 | 72,474 | 70,380 |
Dental Module | 67 | 30 | 738 | 955 | 139 |
Dental Bleeding | 14, 166 | 13, 362 | 17, 962 | 13, 916 | 16, 736 |
Toothache after Dental Injury | 12,047 | 11,621 | 12, 584 | 13, 863 | 15, 154 |
Dental Injury | 184 | 205 | 558 | 484 | 118 |
Total Triages with a dental symptom | 738, 611 | 738, 933 | 1,096,041 | 950, 454 | 1,029,566 |
The above table provides the same information as for PQ13013, with one error to be corrected shortly on Hansard.