Dental Services: Expenditure
(asked on 23rd 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 7 February 2017 to Question 62250, how much has been spent on adult tooth extraction in hospitals in each year since 2010.
The cost of tooth extractions carried out in hospitals is assessed from reference costs.
The following table shows the estimated cost of tooth extractions for all patients in hospitals from 2012/13 to 2015/16 and for all adults from 2010/11 to 2015/16. The data covers all tooth extractions/removals.
Reference costs are the average unit costs to National Health Service trusts and NHS foundation trusts of providing defined services in a given financial year to NHS patients. Reference costs for acute care are collected by healthcare resource group, which are standard groupings of clinically similar treatments which use common levels of healthcare resource.
Reference Costs: Tooth extractions/removals 2010/11 to 2015/16
| Estimated total cost £ million | |||||
| 2010/11 | 2011/12 | 2012/13 | 2013/14 | 2014/15 | 2015/16 |
Extractions/Removal for all patients |
|
| 117.0 | 123.4 | 129.5 | 131.6 |
Extractions/Removal for Adult | 70.3 | 71.5 | 71.1 | 72.8 | 73.6 | 75.8 |
Source: Department of Health, Reference Costs