Dental Health

– Scottish Parliament written question – answered at on 23 May 2005.

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Stewart Stevenson Scottish National Party
Question S2W-16548

To ask the Scottish Executive how many dental surgeries there were in each year since 1997, broken down by NHS board area.

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Mentioned in tabled written questions on 16 May 2005
After 7 days, Given a written answer on 23 May 2005

Andy Kerr Labour

Number of NHS General Dental Practices¹; at 31 March 2004.

NHS Board Area	1997	1998	1999	2000	2001	2002	2003	2004
Scotland	947	956	956	963	960	959	958	969
Argyll and Clyde	74	74	69	72	73	71	73	80
Ayrshire and Arran	67	70	71	71	68	65	66	67
Borders	15	16	16	17	17	19	19	20
Dumfries and Galloway	27	27	26	28	28	28	28	29
Fife	57	57	58	58	58	56	56	56
Forth Valley	44	45	47	48	48	50	47	48
Grampian	74	74	70	71	71	72	71	70
Greater Glasgow	198	198	200	202	201	200	199	201
Highland	46	50	53	52	51	52	51	54
Lanarkshire	83	82	83	83	86	86	88	88
Lothian	169	167	166	164	163	163	161	159
Orkney	3	3	1	3	4	3	3	3
Shetland	3	4	4	4	3	5	7	9
Tayside	82	83	85	84	83	84	84	80
Western Isles	5	6	7	6	6	5	5	5

Source: MIDAS (Management Information and Dental Accounting System).

Note: 1. Dental practices with at least one dentist within the practice providing NHS general dental services.

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