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Community Care (Ribble Valley)
Mr. Evans: To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many people have received care packages to enable them to stay in their homes in the Ribble Valley in each of the last five years. [173471]
Dr. Ladyman: The table shows the number of clients aged 18 and over who received community based services following a community care assessment in Lancashire councils with social services responsibilities for the years 2000–01 to 2002–03. Data for previous years are not available.
Information on the number of clients who received community based services in the Ribble Valley is not centrally available.
| Lancashire | |
|---|---|
| 2000–01(32) | 35,100 |
| 2001–02 | 28,200 |
| 2002–03 | 29,400 |
(31) Community based services include services such as day care, meals, respite care, direct payments, professional support, transport and equipment as well as home care.
(32) Care should be taken when comparing data across the years, as levels of completion and quality may have changed.
Source:
RAP form P1.
Advisers/Consultants
Mr. Lansley: To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many consultants had signed the new consultant contract by the end of April. [173842]
Mr. Hutton: Data collected on the take up of the consultant contract as at 30 April 2004 shows that nearly two thirds of those consultants who had expressed an interest before 31 October 2003 in moving onto the new contract had either moved onto the new contract or received a final job plan offer.
Bob Spink: To ask the Secretary of State for Health how much his Department and its agencies and non-departmental public bodies spent on external consultants and advisers in each of the last three years; [171713]
Ms Rosie Winterton: The expenditure by the Department and its agencies and non-departmental public bodies is shown in the table.
All those units that could provide details without incurring disproportionate costs have been included.
| Total (£) | |
|---|---|
| 2001–02 | 9,078,407 |
| 2002–03 | 10,508,410 |
| 2002–04 | 13,153,386 |
Dentistry
Miss McIntosh: To ask the Secretary of State for Health what percentage of (a) adults and (b) children in the United Kingdom were registered with a NHS dentist at the end of February. [173030]
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Ms Rosie Winterton: At the end of February 2004, 44.3 per cent. of adults and 60.7 per cent. of children in the United Kingdom were registered with a general dental service (GDS) dentist.
However, patients do not necessarily have to be registered with a dentist to receive national health service treatment. The community dental service, personal dental service, the salaried service of the GDS and the hospital dental service are all services which do not require the patient to be registered with a dentist before treatment.
Miss McIntosh: To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many dentists per 10,000 population there are in England. [173032]
Ms Rosie Winterton: There are 4.7 dentists per 10,000 of the population in England.
Mr. Quentin Davies: To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many dentists in England are accepting new adult patients to be treated on the NHS; and what the equivalent number was 10 years ago. [173821]
Ms Rosie Winterton: On 17 May, 2,716 surgeries in England were registering new charge paying adults to be treated on the national health service; 3,049 surgeries were registering new charge exempt adults to be treated on the NHS and 1,583 surgeries were offering occasional treatment to non-registered patients. Personal dental services pilots, including dental access centres, provide NHS dental care to patients without registration.
Comparable information is not available for 10 years ago.
Mr. Quentin Davies: To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many NHS dentists are practising in (a) Lincolnshire and (b) England. [173822]
Ms Rosie Winterton: The number of national health service dentists practising in both Lincolnshire and England as a whole as at 30 September 2003 is shown in the table.
| England | Lincolnshire | |
|---|---|---|
| General dental service (GDS) | 18,536 | 243 |
| Personal dental services | 802 | 13 |
| Community dental services | 1,518 | 10 |
| Hospital dental services | 2,245 | 36 |
| Salaried service of GDS | 128 | 1 |
| Total | 23,229 | 303 |
Mr. Quentin Davies: To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many registered dentists in Lincolnshire are accepting new adult patients to be treated on the NHS. [173823]
Dr. Ladyman: There are four primary care trusts (PCTs) in the Lincolnshire area: North East Lincolnshire PCT, West Lincolnshire PCT, Lincolnshire South-West Teaching PCT and North Lincolnshire PCT.
Information on the number of dental surgeries accepting new national health service patients in these PCT areas, as at 17 May 2004, is shown in the table.
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| PCT | Charge paying adults | Charge exempt adults | Occasional non-registered patients |
|---|---|---|---|
| North East Lincolnshire | — | — | 1 |
| West Lincolnshire | 1 | — | — |
| Lincolnshire South West Teaching | 1 | 2 | — |
| North Lincolnshire | 1 | — | — |
Source:
www.nhs.uk.
Tim Loughton: To ask the Secretary of State for Health what the average number of patients on an NHS dental surgery list was in each of the last five years. [170632]
Ms Rosie Winterton: The information in the table shows the number of registered patients, number of general dental service (GDS) principals and the average dentist list size at September each year between 1999 to 2003.
Registrations cover patients seen in the last 15 months who are registered with the dentist. Many people choose not to register with a GDS dentist and only visit the dentist when they require treatment.
| Number of patients registered per million | Number of GDS principals | Average list size | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1999 | 23.47 | 16,089 | 1,459 |
| 2000 | 23.66 | 16,276 | 1,454 |
| 2001 | 23.58 | 16,451 | 1,433 |
| 2002 | 23.47 | 1 6,445 | 1,427 |
| 2003 | 23.32 | 1 6,648 | 1,401 |
Tim Loughton: To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many times on average an NHS dental patient visited an NHS dentist in each of the last five years. [170633]
Ms Rosie Winterton: The information is not collected in the requested format.
The total number of courses of treatment for adults in the general dental service has risen from 25.9 million in 1999–2000 to 26.6 million in 2003–04.
Period | Adult courses of treatment in GDS—England |
|---|---|
| 1996–97 | 24.6 |
| 1997–98 | 25.3 |
| 1998–99 | 26.2 |
| 1999–2000 | 25.9 |
| 2000–01 | 26.4 |
| 2001–02 | 26.3 |
| 2002–03 | 26.3 |
| 2003–04 | 26.6 |
Tim Loughton: To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many people joined private practice dental surgeries in 2003–04 in (a) Worthing and (b) England. [170631]
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Ms Rosie Winterton: Information on the number of people joining private dental surgeries is not collected centrally. The Office of Fair Trading report, "The Private Dentistry Market in the UK", published in 2003, stated that some 210 practices are totally private in the United Kingdom out of 11,000 practices in total. This equates to less than two per cent..
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