Dental Services: Pregnancy
(asked on 23rd October 2024) - View Source
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what data his Department holds on the number of (a) pregnant women and (b) new mothers receiving free dental treatment on the NHS (i) nationally and (ii) by region.
Pregnant women and new mothers are entitled to free National Health Service dental care. The following table shows the total number of Courses of Treatment delivered nationally to new mothers and pregnant women over the last five years:
Patient type | 2019/20 | 2020/21 | 2021/22 | 2022/23 | 2023/24 |
Expectant mother | 304,536 | 104,659 | 204,229 | 215,528 | 211,935 |
Mother of child born in the year before treatment started | 471,033 | 144,737 | 289,624 | 330,000 | 321,718 |
Source: Data is published by the NHS Business Services Authority, and is available at the following link: https://www.nhsbsa.nhs.uk/statistical-collections/dental-england/dental-statistics-england-202324
We do not hold data for each region.