Dental Services: Older People
(asked on 11th December 2018) - View Source
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask Her Majesty's Government whether they intend to include in the quarterly NHS Dental Statistics for England the proportion of adults aged 65 and over who have visited an NHS dentist in the previous 24 months.
This question was answered on 20th December 2018
NHS Digital publishes quarterly information on the number of adults who have seen a National Health Service dentist in the previous 24 months and children who have seen an NHS dentist in the previous 12 months.
There are no current plans to change the age breakdown of the data that is routinely published.