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Dementia
Joan Walley: To ask the Secretary of State for Health what her Department's strategies are for supporting older people with dementia to live independently at home. [64707]
Ms Rosie Winterton: The service development guide ‘Everybody's Business’ was launched in November 2005 as the next step in the Department's strategy for improving mental health and care services for older people, including those with dementia. It builds on the existing service models outlined in the “National Service Framework for Older People” (2001) and the principles promoted in “Securing Better Mental Health for Older Adults” (July 2005). One of the main aims of the guide is that older adults with mental health problems and their carers have their needs met wherever they are in the system, including where possible being supported and enabled to live independently at home.
Dentistry
Bob Russell: To ask the Secretary of State for Health what dental services provision is available to patients to obtain NHS treatment once a dental practice has used its unit quota; and if she will make a statement. [65909]
Ms Rosie Winterton: It is for primary care trusts (PCTs) to commission primary dental care services to reflect the needs of their local populations. The units of dental activity agreed between a PCT and a practice or dentist will generally reflect the courses of treatment that it is reasonable to expect the practice or dentist to provide over the course of a year taking into account the aim of allowing more time for preventative care. It is for practices and dentists to plan how to spread their activity, including any necessary emergency treatment, over the course of the year.
Bob Russell: To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many NHS dental units are given to practices for emergency appointments. [65911]
Ms Rosie Winterton: Primary care trusts contract with dentists or dental practices for total units of dental activity. The number of these units then used for urgent treatment is a matter for the dentist or dental practice.
Sandra Gidley: To ask the Secretary of State for Health what will happen to unmet units of dental activity at the end of the contract year. [65960]
Ms Rosie Winterton: General dental services (GDS) contracts and personal dental services (PDS) agreements specify the number of units of dental activity (UDAs) to be delivered each year. The GDS or PDS contractor may carry forward up to 4 per cent. of these UDAs into the following year.
GDS contracts and PDS agreements provide for a mid-year contract review to enable the primary care trust and contractor to deal with instances where activity is below the expected level and agree appropriate action.
Sandra Gidley: To ask the Secretary of State for Health what estimate she has made of the number of people in each region with no teeth in each year since 1997. [65962]
Ms Rosie Winterton: The information requested is not held centrally.
Mr. Graham Stuart: To ask the Secretary of State for Health what percentage of eligible dentists in the area covered by (a) Yorkshire Wolds and Coast primary care trust and (b) East Yorkshire primary care trust had accepted the new NHS dental contract as at 31 March 2006; how many had declined to accept the new contract; and if she will make a statement. [63513]
Ms Rosie Winterton: In the North and East Yorkshire and Northern Lincolshire strategic health authority (SHA) area, 211 national health service dental contracts have been signed and 63 contracts have been rejected. The signed contracts account for 93.7 per cent. of NHS dental service in the SHA.
Data on the number of dentists signing the contract at primary care trust level are not yet available.
Mr. Jeremy Browne: To ask the Secretary of State for Health what estimate she has made of the percentage of children who were (a) registered with an NHS dentist, (b) registered with a private dentist and (c) not registered with any dentist in each year since 1997. [64032]
Ms Rosie Winterton: Data on the number and percentage of children registered with a national health service dentist in general dental services (GDS) and personal dental services (PDS) are shown in the table.
Data on the number of children treated or registered with a private dentist are not held centrally.
Data on the number of children not registered with a dentist are not held centrally.
| Number of child patients registered with a NHS dentist as a percentage of the estimated child population as at 31 December in each specified year in England | |
| Percentage | |
| Notes: 1. PDS schemes have varying registration periods. To ensure comparability with corresponding GDS data, PDS registrations for established PDS practices are estimated using proxy registrations, namely the number of patients seen by PDS practices in the past 15 months. 2. Data for 2003 and earlier do not include those PDS schemes that do not have any registrations, for example dental access centres, and is therefore not directly comparable with 2004 and 2005 data. 3. 2005 data have been calculated using Office of National Statistics mid-year population estimates based on the 2001 census, as these are the latest available. Source: Dental Practice Board |
Mr. Jeremy Browne: To ask the Secretary of State for Health what percentage of dentists in England were (a) NHS and (b) private in each year since 1997. [64033]
Ms Rosie Winterton: A dentist with a general dental services (GDS) or personal dental services (PDS)
contract may provide as much or as little national health service treatment as he or she chooses or has agreed with the primary care trust (PCT). Information concerning the amount of time dedicated to NHS work by individual GDS or PDS dentists is not centrally available.
Data on the number of dentists working only in private practice are not held centrally.
The following table, however, contains the numbers of NHS dentists with a GDS or PDS contract in England as at 31 March each year.
| General dental services (GDS) and personal dental services (PDS): Number of NHS dentists in England as at 31 March each year | |
| Number of dentists | |
| Notes: 1. 2006 data includes all notifications of dentists joining or leaving the GDS or PDS, received by the Business Services Authority, up to 3 April 2006. Figures for the numbers of dentists at specified dates may vary depending upon the notification period, for example, data with a later notification period will include more recent notifications of dentists joining or leaving the GDS or PDS. 2. Dentists consist of principals, assistants and trainees. Prison contracts have been excluded. Source: The Information Centre for health and social care Business Services Authority |
Mr. Jeremy Browne: To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many (a) adults and (b) children in Taunton constituency were registered with NHS dentists in each year since 1997. [64260]
Ms Rosie Winterton: The number of adults and children registered with a national health service dentist in Taunton parliamentary constituency since 1997 is shown in the table.
| Adults | Children | |
Mr. Evennett: To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many NHS dentists are accepting new NHS patients in each London borough in the latest period for which figures are available. [66851]
Ms Rosie Winterton: The information requested is not held centrally.
Mr. Vara: To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many NHS dentists were registered in North West Cambridgeshire in each year since 1997. [66926]
Ms Rosie Winterton: The table shows the numbersof dentists in the North-West Cambridgeshire parliamentary constituency each year since 1997 to31 December 2005.
| General dental services (CDS) and personal dental services (PDS) | |
| North West Cambridgeshire | |
| Notes: 1. Data includes all notifications of dentists joining or leaving the GDS or PDS, received by the Business Services Authority, up to 23 March 2006. Figures for the numbers of dentists at specified dates may vary depending upon the notification period, for example data with a later notification period will include more recent notifications of dentists joining or leaving the GDS or PDS. 2. Dentists consist of principals, assistants and trainees. Prison contracts have been excluded from the data. 3. The postcode of the dental practice was used to allocate dentists to specific geographic areas. Constituency areas have been defined using the Office for National Statistics all fields postcode directory. 4. A dentist with a GDS or PDS contract may provide as little or as much NHS treatment as he or she chooses or has agreed with the PCT. Information concerning the amount of time dedicated to NHS work by individual dentists is not centrally available. 5. Data on dentists that work only in private practice are not held centrally. Source: The Information Centre for health and social care Business Services Authority |
Mr. Lancaster: To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many NHS dentists were registered in Milton Keynes in each year since 1997. [68135]
Ms Rosie Winterton: The information requested is shown in the table.
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