Dental Services: Children

(asked on 24th February 2016) - View Source
Questioner
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Graham Allen
(Labour - Nottingham North)

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many 0 to 17 year olds have received dental treatment in (a) Nottingham North constituency, (b) Nottingham and (c) the UK in 2015.

Answered by
Alistair Burt Portrait
Alistair Burt
This question was answered on 29th February 2016

Dental activity is measured through the number of courses of treatment delivered. Data has been provided for the number of courses of treatment for 0 to 17 year olds for the period 1 April 2014 to 31 March 2015. Final data for 2015/16 will be published in August 2016.

Geography

Courses of treatment (CoT) for child patients

Nottingham North Constituency

21,806

Nottingham Local Authority

67,023

England and Wales

11,509,227


Sources:

NHS Dental Services of the NHS Business Services Authority

Notes:

  1. A CoT is defined as:

a. an examination of a patient, an assessment of their oral health, and the planning of any treatment to be provided to that patient as a result of that examination and assessment; and

b. the provision of any planned treatment (including any treatment planned at a time other than the time of the initial examination) to that patient.

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