| General dental services (GDS) and personal dental services (PDS): NHS dental patient registrations as a percentage of the population, at SHA level, as at 30 September for each specified year |
| Strategic Health Authority | 1997 | 2000 | 2005 |
|
Norfolk, Suffolk and Cambridgeshire SHA
|
..
|
..
|
51.92%
|
|
Bedfordshire and Hertfordshire SHA
|
..
|
..
|
49.31
|
|
Essex SHA
|
..
|
..
|
46.27%
|
|
North West London SHA
|
..
|
..
|
41.92%
|
|
North Central London SHA
|
..
|
..
|
41.30%
|
|
North East London SHA
|
..
|
..
|
40.18%
|
|
South East London SHA
|
..
|
..
|
41.09%
|
|
South West London SHA
|
..
|
..
|
37.39%
|
|
Northumberland, Tyne & Wear SHA
|
..
|
..
|
58.10%
|
|
County Durham and Tees Valley SHA
|
..
|
..
|
56.93%
|
|
North and East Yorkshire and Northern Lincolnshire SHA
|
..
|
..
|
50.41%
|
|
West Yorkshire SHA
|
..
|
..
|
53.73%
|
|
Cumbria and Lancashire SHA
|
..
|
..
|
47.77%
|
|
Greater Manchester SHA
|
..
|
..
|
53.92%
|
|
Cheshire & Merseyside SHA
|
..
|
..
|
57.61%
|
|
Thames Valley SHA
|
..
|
..
|
37.14%
|
|
Hampshire and Isle of Wight SHA
|
..
|
..
|
40.71%
|
|
Kent and Medway SHA
|
..
|
..
|
40.05%
|
|
Surrey and Sussex SHA
|
..
|
..
|
43.80%
|
|
Avon, Gloucestershire and Wiltshire SHA
|
..
|
..
|
44.61%
|
|
South West Peninsula SHA
|
..
|
..
|
47.46%
|
|
Dorset and Somerset SHA
|
..
|
..
|
50.84%
|
|
South Yorkshire SHA
|
..
|
..
|
57.76%
|
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|
Trent SHA
|
..
|
..
|
51.38%
|
|
Leicestershire, Northamptonshire and Rutland SHA
|
..
|
..
|
50.57%
|
|
Shropshire and Staffordshire SHA
|
..
|
..
|
45.66%
|
|
Birmingham and The Black Country SHA
|
..
|
..
|
52.70%
|
|
West Midlands South SHA
|
..
|
..
|
49.33%
|
| Source: the information centre for health and social care, the NHS Business Services Authority (BSA) and the Office for National Statistics |
| 1 The postcode of the dental practice was used to allocate dentists to specific geographic areas. SHA areas have been defined using the Office for National Statistics all-fields postcode directory. |
| 2 Dentists consist of principals, assistants and trainees. Information on NHS dentistry in the community dental service, hospitals and prisons is excluded. |
| 3 The data in this report are based on NHS dentists on PCT lists. These details were passed on to the BSA, which paid dentists based on activity undertaken. A dentist can provide as little or as much NHS treatment as he or she chooses or has agreed with the PCT. In some cases, an NHS dentist may appear on a PCT list but not perform any NHS work in that period. |
| 4 Most NHS dentists do some private work. The data do not take into account the proportion of NHS work undertaken by dentists. |
| 5 Not applicable. Population estimates are not available at SHA level prior to 2001. |
| 6 PDS schemes had varying registration periods. To ensure comparability with corresponding GDS data, PDS registrations are estimated using “proxy registrations”, namely the number of patients seen by PDS practices in the previous 15 months. PDS proxy registrations were not estimated for periods before September 2003—actual registrations were used before this date. |
The data supplied for Northern Ireland are at 30 June each year with the exception of December 1994, as these are the closest available archived data to 1995. Data are not available for 1990.
| Northern Ireland December 1994 | June 2000 | June 2005 | |
|
992,870
|
923,974
|
911,915
|
Adults and Children Registered with an NHS dentist
|
|
60 per cent.
|
55 per cent.
|
53 per cent.
|
Percentage of Population Registered with a NHS dentist
|
| Source: Central Services Agency |
| 1 Figures for registered patients include a small proportion that may reside temporarily elsewhere in the United Kingdom. |
| 2 Population base is mid-year estimate of home population for each year (from General Register Office, Northern Ireland). |
Information on dentistry in Wales and Scotland is a matter for the relevant national Administration.
NHS: Financial Reporting
Baroness Noakes asked Her Majesty's Government:
Whether strategic health authorities or primary care trusts have any arrangements to enable their staff to raise, in confidence, concerns about matters of financial reporting, disclosure of other information or value for money; and, if so, whether they will give details of the arrangements.[HL7693]
The Minister of State, Department of Health (Lord Warner): All NHS bodies are required to have appropriate whistleblowing arrangements in place to enable staff to report in confidence on matters of concern such as those raised. The Department of Health subscribes to an independent whistleblowing helpline operated by Public Concern at Work. This is available to NHS staff and is a source of independent advice on whistleblowing issues. In addition, health bodies are required to comply with directions on counter-fraud work and to have a trained local counter-fraud specialist. There is a free telephone reporting line for receiving allegations or reported suspicions of fraud.
