Dental Services: Tees Valley
(asked on 25th November 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 registered dentists were serving NHS patients in the (a) Middlesbrough and (b) Stockton-on-Tees local authority area in each year since 2010.
We do not hold data on the number of dentists who have delivered some National Health Service treatment each year at a local authority level. We have therefore provided data on the number of dentists who delivered NHS care in the Northeast and North Cumbria Integrated Care Board (ICB), which is the ICB for both local authorities. The following table shows the number of dentists who delivered some NHS dental care each year in the Northeast and North Cumbria ICB, from 2011/12 to 2023/24:
Year | Total Registered dentists |
2011/12 | 1,400 |
2012/13 | 1,420 |
2013/14 | 1,531 |
2014/15 | 1,518 |
2015/16 | 1,523 |
2016/17 | 1,713 |
2017/18 | 1,723 |
2018/19 | 1,760 |
2019/20 | 1,491 |
2020/21 | 1,418 |
2021/22 | 1,426 |
2022/23 | 1,387 |
2023/24 | 1,349 |
Source: the figures from 2019 to 2024 are published by the NHS Business Services Authority, and the figures prior to 2019 were published by NHS Digital, and both are available, respectively, at the following two links:
https://www.nhsbsa.nhs.uk/statistical-collections/dental-england/dental-statistics-england-202324
https://digital.nhs.uk/data-and-information/publications/statistical/nhs-dental-statistics
Note: the figures from the two different data sources are not directly comparable, and caution should be taken when comparing pre and post 2019 figures.