Dental Services
(asked on 2nd December 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 (a) dentists and (b) dental surgeries there were per capita in (a) England, (b) the East of England and (c) Suffolk in each year between 2014 and 2024.
We do not hold data on how many dental surgeries there were per capita in England, in the East of England, or in Suffolk, each year between 2014 and 2024. However, the following table shows the number of National Health Service dentists per 100,000 population each year in England, in the East of England, and in the Suffolk and Northeast Essex Integrated Care Board (ICB), each year from 2014/15 to 2023/24:
Year | Suffolk and Northeast Essex ICB | East of England | National |
2014/15 | 53.3 | 49.1 | 54.2 |
2015/16 | 52.9 | 48.1 | 54.7 |
2016/17 | 51.3 | 47.1 | 54 |
2017/18 | 53.8 | 47.8 | 54.8 |
2018/19 | 53.5 | 48.4 | 55 |
2019/20 | 51 | 47.9 | 52.9 |
2020/21 | 47.2 | 45.4 | 48.6 |
2021/22 | 46.5 | 45.9 | 51 |
2022/23 | 45.2 | 45.1 | 50.3 |
2023/24 | 44.2 | 44.5 | 49.5 |
Source: the figures for 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.