NHS 111: Dental Services
(asked on 19th January 2023) - View Source
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many calls NHS 111 received on emergency dental care in (a) London and (b) England each year since 2015.
The information is not held in the format requested. The following table shows the number of NHS 111 calls per year advised to contact dental services in London and England since records began in July 2017.
Year | England | London |
2017 (from July) | 363,665 | 34,378 |
2018 | 724,220 | 73,257 |
2019 | 625,533 | 83,461 |
2020 | 858,966 | 120,720 |
2021 | 951,180 | 144,873 |
2022 (to November) | 793,029 | 127,119 |
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The number of people attending A&E for emergency dental care is not collected centrally.