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Dental Services

Mr. Gordon Prentice: To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many dentists solely offered national health service treatment in (a) September 1992 and (b) September 1996. [7972]

Mr. Malone: Data on the number of dentists who offer solely national health service treatment are not collected centrally.

Mr. Prentice: To ask the Secretary of State for Health, pursuant to his answer of 28 November, Official Report, column 372, if he will list the number of national health service dentists for each health authority in England on (a) 30 September 1992 and (b) 30 September 1996. [7985]

Mr. Malone: Data on the number of general dental service dentists were collected by family health services authority before 1 April 1996 and by health authority thereafter. The data at 30 September 1992 and 30 September 1996 are set out in tables 1 and 2.

Boundary changes have taken place and even where the authorities have the same name the authority areas may not be identical.

Table 1: General Dental Service: number of dentists by family health services authority, at 30 September 1992England

Family Health Services Authority	Number of dentists
England	15,411
Cleveland	166
Cumbria	143
Durham	142
Northumberland	83
Gateshead	64
Newcastle upon Tyne	96
North Tyneside	59
South Tyneside	45
Sunderland	70
Humberside	205
North Yorkshire	235
Bradford	144
Calderdale	56
Kirklees	116
Leeds	258
Wakefield	87
Derbyshire	257
Leicestershire	238
Lincolnshire	123
Nottinghamshire	272
Barnsley	62
Doncaster	85
Rotherham	62
Sheffield	165
Cambridgeshire	179
Norfolk	223
Suffolk	196
Bedfordshire	140
Hertfordshire	381
Barnet	139
Brent and Harrow	192
Ealing, Hammersmith and Hounslow	259
Hillingdon	80
Kensington, Chelsea and Westminster	209
Essex	438
Barking and Havering	99
Camden and Islington	175
City and East London	175
Enfield and Haringey	168
Redbridge and Waltham Forest	147
East Sussex	273
Kent	495
Greenwich and Bexley	150
Bromley	123
Lambeth, Southwark and Lewisham	268
Surrey	455
West Sussex	283
Croydon	125
Kingston and Richmond	128
Merton, Sutton and Wandsworth	246
Dorset	229
Hampshire	512
Wiltshire	173
Isle of Wight	46
Berkshire	251
Buckinghamshire	243
Northamptonshire	140
Oxfordshire	191
Avon	360
Cornwall and Isles of Scilly	141
Devon	366
Gloucestershire	204
Somerset	149
Hereford and Worcester	207
Salop	123
Staffordshire	237
Warwickshire	131
Birmingham	300
Coventry	82
Dudley	74
Sandwell	71
Solihull	53
Walsall	59
Wolverhampton	64
Cheshire	331
Liverpool	146
St. Helens and Knowsley	89
Sefton	90
Wirral	112
Lancashire	421
Bolton	74
Bury	55
Manchester	177
Oldham	69
Rochdale	57
Salford	62
Stockport	107
Tameside	66
Trafford	85
Wigan	85

1. The figures represent the number of dentists (principals) on the family health services authority/health list and their assistants and vocational trainees.

2. Some dentists have a contract with a more than one FHSA/HA, these dentists are counted only once.

3. The figures exclude salaried, hospital and community dentists.

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Table 2: General Dental Services: number of dentists, by health services authority, at 30 September 1996England

Family Health Services Authority	Number of dentists
England	16,336
Bradford	141
Calderdale and Kirklees	180
East Riding	143
Gateshead and South Tyneside	122
Leeds	256
Newcastle and North Tyneside	157
North Cumbria	107
North Yorkshire	264
Northumberland	96
Sunderland	74
Tees	183
Wakefield	92
County Durham	151
Barnsley	54
South Humber	72
Doncaster	92
Leicestershire	257
Lincolnshire	134
North Derbyshire	108
North Nottinghamshire	106
Nottingham	200
Rotherham	68
Sheffield	181
South Derbyshire	156
Bedfordshire	150
Berkshire	276
Buckinghamshire	238
Cambridge and Huntingdon	121
East Norfolk	219
Northamptonshire	158
North West Anglia	105
Oxfordshire	195
Suffolk	201
Enfield and Haringey	191
East London and The City	193
Barking and Havering	114
South Essex	210
Brent and Harrow	202
North Essex	266
Ealing, Hammersmith and Hounslow	316
Camden and Islington	185
Kensington, Chelsea and Westminster	203
Redbridge and Waltham forest	152
Barnet	141
Hillingdon	89
West Hertfordshire	214
East and North Hertfordshire	193
Bexley and Greenwich	146
Bromley	123
Croydon	134
Kingston and Richmond	139
Merton, Sutton and Wandsworth	253
Lambeth, Southwark and Lewisham	276
East Surrey	195
West Surrey	271
East Kent	182
West Kent	358
East Sussex, Brighton and Hove	289
West Sussex	295
Cornwall and Isles of Scilly	149
North and East Devon	166
South and West Devon	224
Somerset	163
Avon	379
Wiltshire	177
North and Mid Hampshire	178
Southampton and South-west Hampshire	177
Portsmouth and South-east Hampshire	167
Dorset	240
Isle of Wight	43
Gloucestershire	201
Herefordshire	62
Worcestershire	173
Shropshire	126
North Staffordshire	108
South Staffordshire	152
Warwickshire	144
Birmingham	304
Coventry	77
Dudley	84
Sandwell	84
Solihull	59
Walsall	58
Wolverhampton	64
Bury and Rochdale	122
East Lancashire	157
Liverpool	150
Manchester	172
Morecambe Bay	103
North Cheshire	89
North West Lancashire	159
St. Helens and Knowsley	96
Salford and Trafford	152
Sefton	92
South Cheshire	244
South Lancashire	83
Stockport	110
Wigan and Bolton	178
Wirral	129
West Pennine	154

1. The figures represent the number of dentists (principals) on the family health services authority/health authority list and their assistants and vocational trainees.

2. Some dentists have a contract with a more than one FHSA/HA, these dentists are counted only once.

3. The figures exclude salaried, hospital and community dentists.

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Mental Health

Dr. Lynne Jones: To ask the Secretary of State for Health how the NHS executive's regional office network monitors the mental health services' implementation of the care programme approach; and if the results of the monitoring are publicly available. [8263]

Mr. Burns: Implementation of the care programme approach is monitored via quarterly returns made by health authorities to the national health service executive.

The results of the monitoring are not routinely published.

Dr. Jones: To ask the Secretary of State for Health, pursuant to his answer of 4 November, Official Report, columns 397-98, what was the average length of the previous stay in hospital of the 5,000 patients aged 16 to 64 years readmitted as emergencies within 90 days of discharge. [8259]

Mr. Burns: The information requested is not available centrally.

Dr. Jones: To ask the Secretary of State for Health, pursuant to his answer of 31 October, Official Report, column 197, what schemes for (i) residential and (ii) 24-hour nursed care accommodation for mentally ill patients under 65 years are currently being negotiated under the private finance initiative. [8257]

Mr. Horam: All capital schemes have to be tested for private finance. The table shows those schemes with a capital value of £1 million or more that are currently, or will be, tested for private finance and which are wholly or partly for 24-hour nursed care or residential accommodation for mentally ill patients under 65. Information on smaller schemes is not held centrally.

Trust	Scheme
Addenbrooke's NHS Trust	Mental Health Strategy Phase 2
Aylesbury Vale Community Healthcare NHS Trust	Mental Health Intensive Care Unit
Mid-Anglia Community Health NHS Trust	Acute mental Health--Ward G8
North West Anglia Healthcare NHS Trust	Mental Health Reprovision
Oxfordshire Mental Healthcare NHS Trust	Medium Secure Unit
South Bedfordshire Community Healthcare NHS Trust	Fairfield Reprovision
Bolton Hospitals NHS Trust	Integrated Acute Psychiatric Services
Guild Community Healthcare NHS Trust	Medium Secure Unit
Calderstones NHS Trust	Medium Secure Unit
Portsmouth Healthcare NHS Trust	Mental Health and Learning Disabilities Schemes
Salisbury Healthcare NHS Trust	Inpatient Mental Health Scheme
Black Country Mental Health NHS Trust	Acute Psychiatric Unit
Northern Birmingham Mental Health Services NHS Trust	Reprovision of Community Based Facilities
Walsgrave Hospitals NHS Trust	Project 2002
North Staffordshire Combined Healthcare NHS Trust	Reprovision of Mental Illness and Health Services
BHB Community Healthcare NHS Trust	Long Stay mental Health Reprovision
Hillingdon Hospital NHS Trust	Mental Health Reprovision
Riverside Mental Health NHS Trust	Long Stay Mental Health Reprovision
Leeds Community and Mental Health Services Teaching NHS Trust	Reprovision of Mental Health Services
South Durham Healthcare NHS Trust	New Acute Mental Health Facilities
South Durham Healthcare NHS Trust	25 Bed Facility with Treatment Suites
Leeds Community and Mental Health Services Teaching NHS Trust	Seacroft Mental Health Unit
Calderdale Healthcare NHS Trust	Centralisation of Acute Hospital Services
Community Healthcare: North Durham NHS Trust	Facilities for Difficult to Place Patients
Chichester Priority Services NHS Trust	Graylingwell Reprovision
Hastings and Rother NHS Trust	Mental Health Reprovision
North Downs Community Health NHS Trust	Farnham Hospital Development
Surrey Heartlands NHS Trust	West Park Hospital Reprovision
Worthing Priority Care NHS Trust	Homefield Hospital Redevelopment
North Kent Healthcare NHS Trust	Sheppey Community Hospital
Oxleas NHS Trust	Bexley Hospital Reprovision
Lewisham and Guys Mental Health NHS Trust	Adolescent Psychiatry Unit
Greenwich Healthcare NHS Trust	Queen Elizabeth Military Hospital

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Dr. Jones: To ask the Secretary of State for Health what plans he has to discuss with the Royal College of Psychiatrists the reasons for the readmission of 5,000 patients aged 16 to 64 years to hospitals as emergencies within 90 days of previous discharge between April and June 1996. [8261]

Mr. Burns: None.

Dr. Jones: To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many psychiatric patients aged between 16 and 64 years who were discharged from hospital in the period from July to September were readmitted to hospital within 90 days of discharge or by the present date. [8260]

Mr. Burns: From the information collected centrally it is not possible to identify how many of the psychiatric patients aged 16 to 64 who were discharged during the period July to September have subsequently been readmitted as emergencies.

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