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Dept of Health

Answer

Mr. Drew: To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many dentists still take NHS adult patients, broken down by each health authority area. [8552] Ms Blears: Most dentists continue to treat some adults and children on the national health service. Only about 1,000 general dental service (GDS) dentists have no adult registrations at all and a proportion of these are practitioners who specialise in children's work. Most dentists ceasing to have adult patients have left the GDS, frequently because of retirement. The table shows the number of GDS dentists in each health authority that have adult registered patients at the end of June 2001. Dentists working in more than one health authority are counted only once in their main health authority. General dental service: Number of dentists with adult registered patients at 30 June 2001, England _________________________________________________________________________________________________. Health authority Number of dentists Avon 360 Barking and Havering 89 Barnet, Enfield and Haringey 305 Barnsley 53 Bedfordshire 136 Berkshire 239 Bexley, Bromley and Greenwich 243 Birmingham 272 Bradford 130 Brent and Harrow 169 Buckinghamshire 247 Bury and Rochdale 106 Calderdale and Kirklees 169 Cambridge 177 Camden and Islington 175 Cornwall and Isles of Scilly 149 County Durham 145 Coventry 73 Croydon 123 Doncaster 80 Dorset 239 Dudley 78 Ealing, Hammersmith and Hounslow 259 East Kent 167 East Lancashire 132 East London and The City 160 East Riding 135 East Surrey 171 East Sussex, Brighton and Hove 278 Gateshead and South Tyneside 110 Gloucestershire 190 Herefordshire 61 Hertfordshire 399 Hillingdon 84 Isle of Wight, Portsmouth and South East Hampshire 187 Kensington, Chelsea and Westminster 167 Kingston and Richmond 117 Lambeth, Southwark and Lewisham 216 Leeds 241 Leicestershire 248 Lincolnshire 128 Liverpool 124 Manchester 151 Merton, Sutton and Wandsworth 222 Morecambe Bay 97 Newcastle and North Tyneside 144 Norfolk 209 North and East Devon 173 North and Mid Hampshire 164 North Cheshire 84 North Cumbria 93 North Derbyshire 97 North Essex 233 North Nottinghamshire 92 North Staffordshire 103 North West Lancashire 133 North Yorkshire 262 Northamptonshire 143 Northumberland 85 Nottingham 196 Oxfordshire 205 Redbridge and Waltham Forest 146 Rotherham 66 Salford and Trafford 142 Sandwell 76 Sefton 78 Sheffield 174 Shropshire 134 Solihull 56 Somerset 149 South and West Devon 228 South Cheshire 221 South Derbyshire 154 South Essex 204 South Humber 65 South Lancashire 86 South Staffordshire 157 Southampton and South West Hampshire 172 St. Helens and Knowsley 87 Stockport 110 Suffolk 188 Sunderland 75 Tees 171 Wakefield 89 Walsall 44 Warwickshire 151 West Kent 301 West Pennine 134 West Surrey 248 West Sussex 277 Wigan and Bolton 160 Wiltshire 183 Wirral 105 Wolverhampton 58 Worcestershire 152 England 15,058 _________________________________________________________________________________________________.

Secondary information

Type

Written question

Reference

8552; 372 c1339-40W

Session

2001-02

Subjects

Dental services Dentistry NHS Patients

Contains statistics

Yes

Link

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