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David Simpson: To ask the Secretary of State for Health what percentage of (a) children, (b) adults and (c) the population in (i) England and (ii) each region were registered with a dentist in each of the last five years. [88139]
Ms
Rosie Winterton: The table showing the proportion of
adults and children registered with a national health service dentist
in England and by strategic health authority as at 30 March in each
specified year has been placed in the Library. These data reflect the
15-month registration period that
applied in the general dental services up until 31 March 2006 and
therefore exclude some patients who attend less regularly and patients
seen at dental access
centres.
Hugh Bayley: To ask the Secretary of State for Health which NHS general dental practices in Selby and York primary care trust area (a) have agreed, (b) are in dispute over and (c) have declined to agree to the new NHS dental contract; whether the practices which have declined the new contract will continue to treat NHS patients; how many NHS patients are treated by each such practice; and if she will make a statement. [88346]
Ms Rosie Winterton: Information on the number of dentists or dental practices who have signed the new contract and the number who have not signed is not available centrally. We do however have some provisional information that covers contracts. A contract may well be for more than one dentist so cannot be broken down further to individual dentist level. These management estimates show that in Selby and York primary care trust:
| Number/Percentage | |
This information is not validated and represents a snapshot of the position in early April. If a contract has been rejected by a practice or a dentist, that practice or dentist is then no longer able to provide national health service treatment. Where practices leave the NHS, the Selby and York primary care trust will look to re-provide NHS services according to the needs of its local population.
Hugh Bayley: To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many patients are registered with NHS general dental practitioners in Selby and York primary care trust area; and how many were registered in each of the previous 10 years. [88347]
Ms Rosie Winterton: The following table shows the number of national health service patients registered with an NHS dentist in Selby and York primary care trust as at 30 March in each specified year.
| General dental services (CDS) and personal dental services (PDS) | |
| Number | |
| Source:
The Information Centre for health and social care NHS Business Services
Authority. | |
Under the new dental system, the concept of registration no longer forms part of the remuneration system. The Department is introducing a comparable means of monitoring the number of patients covered by NHS dental services, but the transition to the new arrangements means that it will be the autumn before the new measure is available.
Information will be available in due course via the NHS Business Services authority on the numbers of patients who receive care or treatment from NHS primary care dentists on one or more occasions within a given period. This will provide a measure that is broadly similar to that of patient registration under the former system of CDS. We expect the first information to be available in the autumn.
Hugh Bayley: To ask the Secretary of State for Health how much was paid by the NHS to general dental practioners in Selby and York in each year since 1996-97 (a) in total and (b) on average per NHS dentist. [88348]
Ms Rosie Winterton: The main element of national health service dental services are the primary dental care services provided by dentists working within the general dental service (GDS), or personal dental service (PDS) pilots.
The following table shows the available data on the main components of expenditure on these services within the Selby and York Primary Care Trust (PCT) from 1997-98 to 2005-06. Comparable localised data for previous years is not available. As the notes to the table record, certain other elements of GDS and PDS costs are also excluded because they are not readily available on a localised basis.
Payments to dentists as shown in the following table represent remuneration for the provision of dental services. As independent contractors, dentists are responsible for meeting their own practice expenses. Remuneration levels reflect the volume of NHS work undertaken by dental contractors, which can vary from practice to practice and may not equate to a full time commitment to NHS services.
Hugh Bayley: To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many (a) adults and (b) children have been on Selby and York Primary Care Trust’s waiting list for registering with an NHS dentist in each month since the list was established. [88359]
Ms Rosie Winterton: This information is not collected centrally.
Hugh Bayley: To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many people have been (a) deregistered and (b) newly registered with NHS dentists in Selby and York Primary Care Trust in each month since July 2004. [88360]
Ms Rosie Winterton: This information is not collected centrally.
Ben Chapman: To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many dental practices in (a) Heswall and (b) Wirral, South have ceased to provide NHS dental services since April. [89082]
Ms Rosie Winterton: The information requested is not held centrally.
Departmental Staff
David Simpson: To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many staff in her Department have had (a) five or more, (b) four, (c) three and (d) two periods of sick leave of less than five days in each of the last three years. [72988]
Andy Burnham: The required information for the three financial years 2003-04, 2004-05 and 2005-06 is as follows:
| 2003-04 | 2004-05 | 2000-06 | |
David Simpson: To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many of her staff are (a) under and (b) over 55 years of age. [77266]
Andy Burnham: The information requested is shown in the following table. The numbers are staff in post (full-time equivalents) as at 31 December 2005:
| Number of staff | |
David Simpson: To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many people over the age of 55 years have been recruited into her Department in each of the last three years. [77267]
Andy Burnham: The information requested is shown in the following table. The figures represent full-time equivalent numbers of staff aged 55 and over.
| Number of staff | |
Departmental Strategies
Mr. Lansley: To ask the Secretary of State for Health what progress has been made in developing an urgent care strategy; what discussions her Department has had with other organisations to facilitate the development of the urgent care strategy; and who will draw up the urgent care strategy. [84464]
Andy Burnham: Work on the development of the urgent care strategy is in progress, and discussions are underway with a number of stakeholders.
Our aim is to produce a consultation document later in the year.
Departmental Surveys
Mr. Amess: To ask the Secretary of State for Health what surveys her Department has carried out in each year since 1990; and if she will make a statement. [87314]
Andy Burnham: The following details are in respect of statistical surveys. Full information requested cannot be provided except at disproportionate cost.
The list of Department sponsored social surveys since 1990 is available at: www.dh.gov.uk/PublicationsAndStatistics/PublishedSurvey/fs/en.
Since 1 April 2005, the following survey results were published by the Information Centre for health and social care and has been placed in the Library.
Processes are in place to ensure that collections of information are appropriate for their purpose and minimise the burdens on those submitting the data.
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