(2) how many NHS dentists in Chesterfield (a) admitted new adult patients to their list and (b) treated NHS patients between the ages of 18 and 65 years in each of the last five years.
Information on dental patients aged between 18 and 65 is currently not available. Information is available by child/adult where a child is defined as being aged 17 and under, and an adult is defined as being aged 18 and over.
Under the old contractual arrangements, which were in place until 1 April 2006, patients had to register with an individual national health service dentist to receive NHS care.
The numbers of adult and child patients registered with an NHS dentist at primary care trust (PCT) and strategic health authority (SHA) area are available in Annex A of the NHS Dental Activity and Workforce Report, England: 31 March 2006. This provides data for 1997 to 2006.
This report is available in the Library and is also available at:
www.ic.nhs.uk/statistics-and-data-collections/primary-care/dentistry/nhs-dental-activity-and-workforce-report-england-31-march-2006
Under the new contractual arrangements, introduced on 1 April 2006, patients do not have to be registered with a NHS dentist to receive NHS care. The closest equivalent measure to ‘registration’ is the number of patients receiving NHS dental services, ‘patients seen’ over a 24-month period. However, this is not directly comparable to the registration data for earlier years.
The numbers of patients seen by an NHS dentist in the 24 month periods ending 31 March 2006, 31 March 2007 and 30 June 2007 are available in Table C1 of Annex 3 of the NHS Dental Statistics for England, Quarter 1: 30 June 2007 report. Information is available by PCT/SHA area, and by Child/Adult.
This report, published on 28 November 2007, is available in the Library and is also available at:
www.ic.nhs.uk/pubs/dentstatsq10708
Both reports have been published by The Information Centre for health and social care.
Information on NHS dentists admitting new NHS adult patients to lists, and on NHS patients between the ages of 18 and 65 years of age treated, can be provided only at disproportionate cost.
Information on recruitment of NHS dentists working part-time and full-time is not collected centrally.
The information on the number of dentists recruited by primary care trust (PCT) is based on the old contractual arrangements. To provide information on the new contractual arrangements, introduced on 1 April 2006, could only be produced at disproportionate cost.
The following table shows the number of dentists leaving and joining Chesterfield PCT and Derbyshire Dales and South Derbyshire PCT between 2001 and 2006.
2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 Chesterfield PCT Leaver 1 2 4 3 0 New Entrant 4 2 2 5 3 Derbyshire Dales and South Derbyshire PCT Leaver 2 1 2 2 1 New Entrant 2 1 3 2 1 Notes: 1. Leaver means the dentist did not have an open general dental services (GDS) or personal dental services (PDS) contract in March of the specified year but did have a GDS or PDS contract in England in March of the previous year. 2. New entrant means the dentist did have an open GDS or PDS contract in March of the specified year but did not have a GDS or PDS contract in England in March of the previous year. 3. A dentist may have joined a GDS or PDS contract within more than one PCT or strategic health authority (SHA) area, in which case they would appear in figures from each individual PCT or SHA area. The figures are based on GDS and PDS contracts. The dentists include principals, assistants and trainees. Prison contracts have not been included in this analysis. The areas have been defined using practice postcodes. 4. A dentist with a GDS or GDS contract may provide as little or as much National Health Service treatment as he or she chooses or as agreed with the PCT. 5. The Dental Practice Board has no information concerning the amount of time dedicated to NHS work by individual dentists. 6. The Dental Practice Board has no information concerning private dentists. Sources: The Information Centre for health and social care NHS Business Services Authority, Dental Services Division