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Under the new dental contractual arrangements, introduced on 1 April 2006, patients do not have to be registered with a national health service 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.
Information on patients seen as a percentage of the population, in England, is available in table D6 and D8 of annex 3 of the “NHS Dental Statistics, Quarter 2: 30 September 2008” report. Information is split for adults and children and is available at quarterly intervals, from 31 March 2006 to 30 September 2008. This is split by primary care trust and strategic health authority.
This report has already been placed in the Library. It is also available on the NHS Information Centre website at:
www.ic.nhs.uk/pubs/dentalstats0809q2
The primary dental service funding allocations made to the Barnsley, Rotherham and Doncaster Primary Care Trusts (PCTs) for the three years 2006-07 to 2008-09 are shown in the following table. These are net of income from dental charges paid by patients, which are retained locally to supplement the resources available for dentistry. Actual expenditure levels are determined by the pattern and type of services commissioned by each PCT. PCTs may also dedicate some of their other national health service resources to dentistry if they consider this an appropriate local priority.
£000 2006-07 2007-08 2008-09 Barnsley 8,210 8,720 9,688 Rotherham 7,361 7,838 8,787 Doncaster 13,710 14,574 16,058 Notes: 1. The allocation figure for 2006-07 for Doncaster is the aggregate of the allocations made initially to Doncaster Central, Doncaster East, and Doncaster West PCTs before they merged to form the Doncaster PCT, with effect from 1 October 2006. 2. PCTs are awarded separate funding allocations to meet the cost of any dental vocational trainees who may be placed with dental practices in their area.
The information is not held centrally and could be obtained only at disproportionate cost.