Sir Nicholas Soames: To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many (a) dentists and (b) dental practices there were in (i) West Sussex and (ii) Mid Sussex in each of the last five years for which figures are available.
Steve Brine, Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Health: Data on the number of dental practices in West Sussex and Mid Sussex is not held.
The table below shows the number of dentists who worked on a National Health Service contract in the years, from 2012/13 – 2016/17, for the most relevant clinical commissioning group (CCG) areas for West Sussex and Mid Sussex.
Organisation Name |
2012/13 |
2013/14 |
2014/15 |
2015/16 |
2016/17 |
NHS Coastal West Sussex CCG |
301 |
305 |
321 |
329 |
304 |
NHS Crawley CCG |
99 |
106 |
99 |
102 |
94 |
NHS Horsham and Mid Sussex CCG |
189 |
212 |
211 |
212 |
219 |
Source: NHS Digital, NHS Dental Services of the NHS Business Services Authority
Notes:
Dentists are defined as performers with NHS activity recorded by FP17 forms. All dentists require a performer number to deliver primary care dental services in the NHS. Performer is the term used to describe dentists who hold a performer number. Performers may be the holder of the contract with the NHS or dentists subcontracted by the contract holder to provide NHS care.
Data is held as a head count not whole time equivalent. At national level dentists appear only once but because this is a count of total dentists working on contracts when the data is provided by CCG or region dentists working on contracts in more than one CCG or region appear more than once in the count.
Data consists of performers in General Dental Services, Personal Dental Services and Trust-led Dental Services.
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