Dental Services: Surgery
(asked on 4th July 2022) - View Source
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how people are waiting for oral surgery by (a) type of procedure and (b) age.
Answered by
Maria Caulfield
Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Department for Business and Trade) (Minister for Women)
This question was answered on 15th July 2022
Referral to treatment data shows that as of April 2022, there were 268,464 patients awaiting oral surgery. However, this does not record the type of procedure and while data of the age of the patient is collected, this information has not been centrally validated.