Jim Cunningham – 2016 Parliamentary Question to the Department of Health
The below Parliamentary question was asked by Jim Cunningham on 2016-04-14.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what information his Department holds on the number of dental practices which were accepting NHS patients in each of the last five years.
Alistair Burt
Information is not collected centrally by the Department on the number of dentists taking on new patients.
The table below shows the expenditure on National Health Service dental services. The total expenditure figures have been broken down into primary care (delivered by high street dentists through General or Personal Dental Service contracts (GDS/PDS)) and other services (delivered in community and secondary care settings).
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2010/11 |
2011/12 |
2012/13 |
2013/14 |
2014/15 |
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1 |
Primary Care (Net) Expenditure on GDS / PDS |
£2,075,965 |
£2,175,560 |
£2,190,685 |
£2,056,469 |
£2,030,294 |
|
2 |
Patient Charge Revenue |
-£617,014 |
-£637,121 |
-£653,006 |
-£683,583 |
-£716,014 |
|
3 |
Primary Care (Gross) Expenditure on GDS / PDS |
£2,692,979 |
£2,812,681 |
£2,843,691 |
£2,740,052 |
£2,746,308 |
|
4 |
Other (Community and Secondary Care) |
£826,857 |
£602,327 |
£740,640 |
£818,042 |
£851,687 |
|
5 |
Total Expenditure |
£3,519,836 |
£3,415,008 |
£3,584,331 |
£3,558,094 |
£3,597,995 |
Notes:
Total expenditure is the sum of rows 3 and 4.
Expenditure figures between years is not directly comparable owing to changes in commissioning arrangements from primary care trusts (PCTs) to NHS England from April 2013.
In addition, responsibility for public health and prevention programme moved from PCTs to local authorities.
Source: Rows 1, 2, 3 -Primary Care expenditure Departmental accounts; row 4 – Other Programme Budgeting NHS England.
