NHS Dental Services, July-September 2010

Statistics on NHS General Dental Services activity and the number of people seen include data for Wales for the period up to the end of September 2010. The latest release updates the statistics previously released on 24 November 2010.

Activity between 1 July and 30 September 2010:

• A total of 1.22 million Units of NHS Dental Activity were done, representing 570,120 individual courses of treatment. This is a decrease of 2.9 per cent and 2.6 per cent respectively when compared to the same period last year.
• 1.65 million patients were recorded as having been treated in the 24 months before 30 September 2010 amounting to 55.0 per cent of the population, 64.9 per cent of the child population (under 18 years old) and 52.4 per cent of the adult population (18 years or over). This is a decrease of 0.2 percentage points for the per cent of population treated compared to the same period last year.

Further information

StatsWales website.

Contact

Tel: 029 2082 5064
E-mail: stats.healthinfo@wales.gsi.gov.uk

Next update

May 2011 (provisional - to be confirmed on the 'Due Out Soon' page)