NHS Dental Services, 2010-11

Statistics on NHS General Dental Services activity and the number of people seen include data for Wales for the year ending 31 March 2011. The latest release updates the statistics previously released on 18 August 2010.

The key points from the latest release are:

Activity between 1 April 2010 and 31 March 2011:

• A total of 5.0 million Units of Dental Activity (UDA) were carried out, representing 2.3 million individual NHS dental courses of treatment (CoT) a decrease of 0.6 per cent and a decrease of 0.4 per cent respectively since 2009-10.
• Almost two-fifths (38.0 per cent) of adult Courses of Treatment (CoTs) included an examination, equating to 1,070,700 (rounded to the nearest hundred) CoTs.
• The total number of Units of Orthodontic Activity (UOAs) credited during 2010-11 in Wales was 200,566.

Patients treated

• 1.7 million patients were recorded as having been treated in the 24 months before 31 March 2011, amounting to 55.0 per cent of the population. 65.2 per cent of the child (under 18 years) and 52.3 per cent of the adult population (18 years or over) were treated in the previous 24 months.

Workforce in the year ending 31 March 2011:

• There were 1,349 dentists with NHS activity recorded on dental activity (FP17W) forms, an increase of 39 (3.0 per cent) since 2009-10 equating to 4.5 dentists per 10,000 population.

Patient charges between 1 April 2010 and 31 March 2011:

• 40.3 per cent of all CoTs were for paying adults, the total patient charge for which amounted to £27.3 million an increase of 1.4 per cent since 2009-10.

Further information

StatsWales website.

Contact

Tel: 029 2082 6186
E-mail: stats.healthinfo@wales.gsi.gov.uk

Next update

August 2012 (provisional - to be confirmed on 'Due out Soon' page)