Dentistry
(asked on 27th June 2022) - View Source
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many dentists providing NHS services there were in England in each of the last 12 years.
This question was answered on 15th July 2022
The following table shows the number of National Health Service dentists with NHS activity in each year from 2011 to 2021. The information requested for 2021/22 is expected to be published in September 2022.
Year | Number of dentists with NHS activity |
2010/11 | 22,799 |
2011/12 | 22,920 |
2012/13 | 23,201 |
2013/14 | 23,723 |
2014/15 | 23,947 |
2015/16 | 24,089 |
2016/17 | 24,007 |
2017/18 | 24,308 |
2018/19 | 24,545 |
2019/20 | 24,684 |
2020/21 | 23,733 |