Health written question – answered at on 16 June 2009.
John Cummings
Labour, Easington
To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many NHS dentists there are in Easington Constituency; and how many patients received NHS services from those dentists in the last 24 month period for which information is available.
Ann Keen
Parliamentary Under-Secretary, Department of Health
Information is not available in the format requested.
The numbers of dentists with national health service activity during the year ending
Following a recent consultation exercise, this measure is based on a revised methodology and therefore supersedes previously published work force figures relating to the new dental contractual arrangements. It is not comparable to the information collected under the old contractual arrangements. This revised methodology counted the number of dental performers with NHS activity recorded via FP17 claim forms in each year ending
Information on the number of patients seen in the most recent 24 month period is available in table D3 of annex 3 of the "NHS Dental Statistics for England, Quarter 3,
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