– Scottish Parliament written question – answered at on 2 April 2007.
Tricia Marwick
Scottish National Party
Question S2W-32636
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S2W-20888 by Lewis Macdonald on 29 November 2005, how many people aged 60 and over are registered with an NHS dentist, broken down by (a) NHS board and (b) Scottish parliamentary constituency.
Lewis Macdonald
Labour
The information requested is provided in the following table by NHS board. Information is not available for parliamentary constituency, as patient postcode is not collected.
Number of People Aged 60 and Over Registered with an NHS Dentist, by NHS Board, at 31 March 2006
| NHS board | No. of People Registered Aged 60 and Over |
| Argyll and Clyde | 36,871 |
| Ayrshire and Arran | 38,321 |
| Borders | 10,238 |
| Dumfries and Galloway | 9,115 |
| Fife | 29,077 |
| Forth Valley | 22,098 |
| Grampian | 26,233 |
| Greater Glasgow | 74,722 |
| Highland | 10,304 |
| Lanarkshire | 42,126 |
| Lothian | 62,705 |
| Orkney | 880 |
| Shetland | 1,364 |
| Tayside | 40,117 |
| Western Isles | 2,018 |
| Scotland | 406,189 |
Source: ISD Scotland.
Yes2 people think so
No1 person thinks not
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