Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, pursuant to the Answer of 2 March 2017 to Question 65127, on dental services, for what reason no date has been provided in that Answer for the years 2010-11 and 2011-12 for tooth extractions and removal for all patients.

Question 65127 requested data from 2012-13 onwards. The table below shows the estimated cost of tooth extractions for all patients in hospitals from 2010-11 to 2011-12. 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 2011-12

Source: Department of Health, Reference Costs