Accident and Emergency Departments: Dental Services
(asked on 8th February 2018) - View Source
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what information his Department holds on the number of children who have been admitted to A&E due to dental problems.
This question was answered on 20th February 2018
Information is collected by NHS Digital on the number of accident and emergency (A&E) admissions in English National Health Service hospitals and English NHS commissioned activity in the independent sector.
This shows that for 2016/17 3,489 children aged 17 and under were admitted to A&E for dental related investigations. This is the latest data available.