Dental Services
(asked on 5th December 2014) - View Source
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many dentists are operating under (a) general dental services contracts and (b) personal dental services agreements in (i) Suffolk, (ii) Bedfordshire, (iii) Cambridgeshire, (iv) Essex, (v) Hertfordshire, (vi) Norfolk and (vii) England.
The information requested is shown in the following tables.
Number of dentists in England between schedule period December 2013 to November 2014 | |||
Number of performers operating under GDS Contracts | 21,573 | ||
Number of performers operating under PDS Agreements | 3,687 | ||
Total | 25,260 | ||
Number of dentists in selected Area Teams and local authority area between schedule period December 2013 to November 2014
Babergh | East Anglia | 25 | 19 |
Forest Heath | East Anglia | 30 | 19 |
Ipswich | East Anglia | 74 | 29 |
Mid Suffolk | East Anglia | 41 | 18 |
St Edmundsbury | East Anglia | 65 | 12 |
Suffolk Coastal | East Anglia | 54 | 2 |
Waveney | East Anglia | 67 | 7 |
| Sub Total | 356 | 106 |
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Luton | Hertfordshire and the South Midlands | 95 | 3 |
Bedford | Hertfordshire and the South Midlands | 87 | 55 |
Central Bedfordshire | East Anglia | - | 1 |
Central Bedfordshire | Hertfordshire and the South Midlands | 144 | 11 |
Milton Keynes | Hertfordshire and the South Midlands | 101 | 11 |
| Sub Total | 427 | 81 |
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Cambridge | East Anglia | 109 | 66 |
East Cambridgeshire | East Anglia | 31 | 2 |
Fenland | East Anglia | 31 | 11 |
Huntingdonshire | East Anglia | 59 | 30 |
South Cambridgeshire | East Anglia | 56 | 4 |
Peterborough | East Anglia | 77 | 31 |
| Sub Total | 363 | 144 |
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Basildon | Essex | 113 | 10 |
Braintree | Essex | 66 | 20 |
Brentwood | Essex | 37 | 3 |
Castle Point | Essex | 55 | - |
Chelmsford | Essex | 90 | 9 |
Colchester | Essex | 93 | 13 |
Epping Forest | Essex | 53 | 3 |
Harlow | Essex | 47 | - |
Maldon | Essex | 19 | 6 |
Rochford | Essex | 56 | - |
Tendring | Essex | 67 | 11 |
Uttlesford | Essex | 27 | - |
Southend-on-Sea | Essex | 93 | 19 |
Thurrock | Essex | 67 | 1 |
| Sub Total | 883 | 95 |
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Broxbourne | Hertfordshire and the South Midlands | 61 | 12 |
Dacorum | Hertfordshire and the South Midlands | 107 | 10 |
East Hertfordshire | Hertfordshire and the South Midlands | 95 | 14 |
Hertsmere | Hertfordshire and the South Midlands | 58 | 5 |
North Hertfordshire | Hertfordshire and the South Midlands | 96 | 10 |
St Albans | Hertfordshire and the South Midlands | 126 | 18 |
Stevenage | Hertfordshire and the South Midlands | 50 | 3 |
Three Rivers | Hertfordshire and the South Midlands | 49 | 57 |
Watford | Hertfordshire and the South Midlands | 67 | 11 |
Welwyn Hatfield | Hertfordshire and the South Midlands | 56 | 6 |
| Sub Total | 765 | 146 |
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Breckland | East Anglia | 81 | 6 |
Broadland | East Anglia | 84 | 24 |
Great Yarmouth | East Anglia | 60 | 5 |
King's Lynn and West Norfolk | East Anglia | 58 | - |
North Norfolk | East Anglia | 49 | 17 |
Norwich | East Anglia | 79 | 17 |
South Norfolk | East Anglia | 77 | 1 |
| Sub Total | 488 | 70 |
Sources:
NHSBSA Dental Services Payments on line (POL)
Information entered by commissioners to administer and monitor contracts to enable payments to dentists.
NHSBSA Dental Services data warehouse
The information we collect from dental activity forms (FP17s) combined with the information taken from POL
Notes:
Caveats:
Data included is for contracts in England entered on POL by commissioners from Area Teams (AT).
Number of performers. This will be the performer reported on an FP17 or where this is not reported this will be the provider number where there is only one performer; else the form is rejected.
Performers will be counted in each contract type where they have submitted an FP17. This could be both GDS and PDS type contracts during the time period.
Performers in East of England may be counted more than once as they will be counted in each local authority that they have submitted FP17s from.
Definitions:
FP17: Dentists are required to submit a form called an FP17 for every course of NHS dental treatment they provide. The FP17 form can be submitted either on paper or electronically. The information contained on the FP17 form is either scanned (if a paper submission) and imported or imported directly (if an electronic submission) and stored electronically in the NHS dental services data repository (NHS DS data warehouse).
FP17O: Dentists are required to submit a form called an FP17O for every course of NHS orthodontic dental treatment they provide. The FP17O form can be submitted either on paper or electronically. The information contained on the FP17O form is either scanned (if a paper submission) and imported or imported directly (if an electronic submission) and stored electronically in the NHS dental services data repository (NHS DS data warehouse).
Contract Type Name :
GDS – General Dental Services
PDS – Personal Dental Services
Time Period:
Active Performers identified are those submitting FP17s between scheduled months of December 2013 and November 2014 where the treatment completion date falls within the financial years 2013-14 and 2014-15.
Local Authority Name - The identifying local Authority name of the Performer
Number of performers - The count of the active performers
Area Team Name - The identifying Area Team code of the Performer
Data extracted from the Data Warehouse on 9 December 2014
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