Dental Services: Darlington

(asked on 22nd January 2024) - View Source

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many Units of Dental Activity have been delivered in Darlington Constituency in each year since 2006; and what the cost of that delivery was in each of those years.


Answered by
Andrea Leadsom Portrait
Andrea Leadsom
Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department of Health and Social Care)
This question was answered on 30th January 2024

Data on the cost of delivery is not centrally held at integrated care board (ICB) level. The following table shows the number of units of dental activity (UDAs) delivered in North East and North Cumbria ICB since 2015/16:

Year

UDAs delivered

Percentage change

2015/16

4,861,964

2016/17

4,782,699

-1.6%

2017/18

4,579,779

-4.2%

2018/19

4,974,087

8.6%

2019/20

4,685,845

-5.8%

2020/21

1,446,015

-69.1%

2021/22

3,461,374

139.4%

2022/23

4,163,675

20.3%

Source: NHS England

Notes:

  1. ICBs were established in 2021/22.
  2. The figures provided from 2015/16 to 2020/21 are presumptive figures of expected ICB value to compare UDA delivery to previous years.
  3. There is no comparable data prior to 2015/16.
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