Dental Services: Children
(asked on 7th February 2017) - View Source
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, pursuant to the Answer of 30 January 2017 to Question 61555, how many children were seen in each 12 month period from 2010 to 2016; and what proportion of those patients were seen as an emergency appointment in each such period.
Information is not available in the format requested.
Data is collected on the number of adults seen in the last 24 months and the number of children seen in the last 12 months.
Data for children seen in the previous 12 months is published quarterly and can be found, for the latest period 31 March 2015 to 30 September 2016, in the table below.
Information is not available on the proportion of patients seen as an emergency appointment for adults or children.
Count of the number of patients aged 0 to 17 seen by a National Health Service dentist in the 12 months to specified dates, and as a percentage of all 0-17 year olds in England | |||
12 month period ending | Number of patients | Percentage of population (%) | |
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30 September 2016 | 6,731,437 | 57.6 | |
30 June 2016 | 6,723,854 | 57.6 | |
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31 December 20152 | 7,382,268 | 63.7 | |
30 September 2015 | 7,288,130 | 62.9 | |
30 June 2015 | 7,265,500 | 62.7 | |
31 March 2015 | 7,064,650 | 60.9 | |
Notes:
1 The figures are for the number of patients seen at least once during the 12 month period. Patients are counted in this data set on their first visit only.
2 Data are not available for the number of child patients seen in the 12 months to 31 March 2016. This was due to the development of a new methodology that allowed data to be published at clinical commissioning group and local authority geographies from June 2016 onwards.