Dental Services: West Midlands

(asked on 25th April 2016) - View Source
Questioner
Jim Cunningham Portrait
Jim Cunningham
(Labour - Coventry South)

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, pursuant to the Answer of 21 April 2016 to Question 34010, what the cost of providing NHS dental services in the West Midlands was in each of the last five years; and if he will make a statement.

Answered by
Alistair Burt Portrait
Alistair Burt
This question was answered on 4th May 2016

The table below shows the expenditure on National Health Service dental services in the West Midlands. The total expenditure figures have been broken down into primary care (delivered by high street dentists through General or Personal Dental Services contracts (GDS/PDS)) and other services (delivered in community and secondary care settings).

2010/11 £000

2011/12 £000

2012/13 £000

2013/14 £000

2014/15 £000

1

GDS/PDS Cost

279,997

290,274

286,385

197,166

200,904

2

Fees Charged

(63,328)

(65,765)

(66,682)

(47,667)

(50,014)

3

Net Cost

216,669

224,509

219,703

149,499

150,890

4

Other (community and secondary care)

69,132

65,093

139,583

71,233

73,131

5

Total Expenditure

349,129

355,367

359,286

220,732

224,021

Source: Rows 1, 2, 3 - Primary care expenditure, Department of Health accounts (2010/11, 2011/12 and 2012/13) and NHS England accounts (2013/14 and 2014/15); Row 4 - other programme budgeting NHS England.

Notes:

  1. Figures provided are the expenditure incurred by primary care trusts (PCTs) within the former West Midlands Strategic Health Authority (SHA), and, from April 2013, NHS England West Midlands Area Teams regional teams, in commissioning dental treatment. The balances show the gross expenditure incurred in providing GDS and PDS, which are alternative models of dental care, and the fees charged to the recipient in providing the treatment.
  2. Total expenditure is the sum of rows 3 and 4.
  3. Expenditure figures between years are not directly comparable owing to changes in commissioning arrangements from PCTs to NHS England from April 2013. The 2013/14 and 2014/15 columns do not include areas formerly known as Shropshire and Staffordshire, and Telford and Wrekin, which were part of the West Midlands SHA footprint.
  4. In addition, responsibility for public health and prevention programmes moved from PCTs to local authorities in April 2013.
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