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Dentistry
Mr. Lansley: To ask the Secretary of State for Health pursuant to the answer of 10 November 2005, Official Report, column 665W, on dentistry, if she will give details of the recommendations made by the Joint Implementation Group to the board of Higher Education Funding Council for England. [43057]
Ms Rosie Winterton: On 26 January, my hon. Friend, the Minister of State for Higher Education and Lifelong Learning (Bill Rammell) made a Ministerial Statement to Parliament, Official Report, column 65WS, to announce that the board of the Higher Education Funding Council for England had accepted bids from the Universities of Exeter and Plymouth for a new Peninsula Dental school with places for 62 students; the Universities of Liverpool and Central Lancashire for the development of 32 outreach training places for dental students in Lancashire and Cumbria; and the University of Leeds for six new places to develop outreach training for dental students in Hull.
These decisions were made in accordance with the recommendations of the joint implementation group.
Mr. Cox: To ask the Secretary of State for Health what estimate her Department has made of the number of people not registered with an NHS dentist; and of those how many are estimated to be using emergency dental facilities. [45413]
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Ms Rosie Winterton: As at 30 September 2005, the number of people registered with a national health service dentist, with a general dental services (GDS) and personal dental services (PDS) contract, in England was 24,203,150. We estimate this figure to be 48 percent., of the total population in England.
The number of patients treated in the emergency dental services in the year ending March 2005 was 235,506.
Registrations data includes GDS and PDS registrations/PDS patients seen (counts patients seen in the past 15 months for some PDS schemes).
Mr. Cox: To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many NHS dental practices there are in each strategic health authority; and how many of them are (a) not registering new NHS patients, (b) not registering new charge paying adult NHS patients and (c) accepting all new patient registrations. [45422]
Ms Rosie Winterton: Information on the number of national health service dental practices that are registering new patients is not collected centrally.
The number of general dental services and personal dental services dental surgery addresses in England, as at 31 December 2005, broken down by strategic health authority (SHA) is shown in the table.
Source:
Dental Practice Board
Mr. Lansley: To ask the Secretary of State for Health whether she intends the new contracts negotiated between dentists and primary care trusts under the new General Dental Services contract to be of one year's length. [45515]
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Ms Rosie Winterton: A new general dental services contract will not have any fixed duration.
Chris Ruane: To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many self-employed dentists have been contracted to the NHS in each of the past 30 years. [45571]
Ms Rosie Winterton: Most general dental practitioners are self-employed contractors working in general dental services (GDS) and personal dental services (PDS). The number of GDS and PDS dentists in England and Wales as at 30 September-each year is shown in the table.
Notes:
PDS dentistry began in 1998 and therefore, the figures for 1975–1997 are GDS only dentists.
Source:
Dental Practice Board
Mr. Laurence Robertson: To ask the Secretary of State for Health (1) if she will make a statement on the provision of children's NHS dental services in Gloucestershire; [48372]
(2) what assessment she has made of the provision of NHS dentistry in each of the six constituencies in Gloucestershire; and if she will make a statement. [48373]
Ms Rosie Winterton [holding answer 6 February 2006]: It is for primary care trusts to make decisions about the provision of local dental services.
However, according to figures held by the Department, between November 2004 and November 2005 there has been an increase in the Gloucestershire area, of 1.2 per cent. in the total number of general dental services (GDS) and personal dental services (PDS) registrations, and 1.5 per cent. increase in child GDS and PDS registrations.
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John Hemming: To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many NHS dentists there are in each primary care trust area; and what net change in the number of dentists in each primary care trust area the Government expects as a result of the implementation of the new NHS dental contract. [44813]
Ms Rosie Winterton: Information on the number of dentists in each primary care trust(PCT) has been placed in the Library.
The Department has not made a specific assessment of any changes arising from the new dental contract. From April 2006, PCTs will have devolved responsibility for the commissioning of primary dental services. This means that they will be responsible for commissioning dental services to reflect the needs of their local areas. All dentists currently practising in the general dental services and personal dental services are legally entitled to new contracts. If any dentists choose not to take up the new contract, PCTs will use the funding in their devolved budgets to re-commission services from other dentists.
Finished Consultant Episodes (Costs)
Mr. Maude: To ask the Secretary of State for Health if she will give the average cost per finished consultant episode, broken down by specialty, for each health authority in England in the last year for which records are available. [47391]
Mr. Byrne: The table shows the reference cost index score for health authorities (HA) in 2002–03, the latest year for which data is available. The reference cost index score compares the cost incurred by national health service providers with the expected cost for the providers level of activity, were they providers to be operating at national average costs. A score of 100 indicates operational at national average costs, above 100 indicates operational at above national average costs and below 100 below national average costs.
Source:
NHS reference costs
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Mr. Maude: To ask the Secretary of State for Health if she will give the average cost per finished consultant episode, broken down by specialty, for each strategic health authority in England in each year for which records are available. [47393]
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Mr. Byrne: The table shows the reference cost index score for strategic health authorities (SHAs) in 2003–04. This is the first year SHAs were fully operational and is the latest year for which data are publicly available. The reference cost index score compares the cost incurred by national health service providers with the expected cost for the providers level of activity, were they providers to be operating at national average costs. A score of 100 indicates operational at national average costs, above 100 indicates operational at above national average costs and below 100 below national average costs.
Source:
NHS reference costs
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