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Dept of Health

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Sarah Teather: To ask the Secretary of State for Health what percentage of the population in each primary care trust in London is registered with an NHS dentist. [172798] Mr. Hutton: At 31 March, 2.9 million people were registered with a general dental service (GDS) dentist in London, representing, 40.7 per cent. of the population. The information in the table shows the percentage of population registered with a dentist in each primary care trust area in London at 31 March. Registrations are recorded in the dentist's primary care trust (PCT) area. Patients attending a dentist in their home PCT area are recorded in the PCT area of their dentist. Registration rates for individual PCTs can be significantly affected by some patients receiving dental treatment in a different PCT area from the one in which they live. Registrations lapse if patients do not return to their dentist within 15 months and so the registration figures exclude patients who have not been to their GDS dentist within the past 15 months. Also excluded from the figures are patients who receive dental treatment from other national health service dental services including dental access centres. Number of General Dental Service registration as a percentage of the population at 31 March 2004--London _________________________________________________________________________________________________. Primary care trust Registration rates London Region 40.7 North Central London 41.3 Barnet 33.3 Enfield 40.0 Haringey 53.4 Camden 43.1 Islington 40.8 North East London 38.6 Havering 45.3 Barking and Dagenham 36.9 City and Hackney 28.0 Tower Hamlets 31.4 Newham 37.6 Redbridge and Waltham Forest1 44.4 North West London 43.1 Hillingdon 44.2 Hammersmith and Fulham 38.8 Ealing 44.5 Hounslow 46.5 Brent 49.5 Harrow 42.8 Kensington and Chelsea 20.6 Westminster 49.7 South East London 40.7 Bromley 34.9 Greenwich 44.8 Bexley Care Trust 42.3 Lambeth 37.1 Southwark 38.1 Lewisham 49.0 South West London 39.6 Kingston 37.5 Croydon 43.5 Wandsworth 38.2 Richmond and Twickenham 29.8 Sutton and Merton 42.6 _________________________________________________________________________________________________. 1 Combined rates for Redbridge and Waltham Forest.

Secondary information

Type

Written question

Reference

172798; 421 c1005-6W

Session

2003-04

Subjects

Dental services Greater London Primary care trusts Registration

Contains statistics

Yes

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