Dental Services: Children
(asked on 15th June 2026) - View Source
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many hospital admissions there were for dental treatment for (a) children (b) adults at York Teaching Hospital in each of the last 5 years.
The following table shows the number of Finished Admission Episodes (FAEs) where the main operative procedure was a dental procedure, by patient age group in each year from 2021/22 to 2025/26 in the York and Scarborough Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust:
Year | Number of children (zero to 17 years old) admissions | Number of adult (18 years old and over) admissions |
2021/22 | 155 | 385 |
2022/23 | 135 | 405 |
2023/24 | 200 | 510 |
2024/25 | 200 | 445 |
2025/26 | 165 | 500 |
Note: data for 2025/26 is provisional.
An FAE is the first period of admitted patient care under one consultant within one healthcare provider. FAEs are typically counted against the year or month in which the admission episode finishes, which is the approach we have used here. Admissions do not represent the number of patients, as a person may have more than one admission within the period.