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General Practitioners and Dental Services: Pendle

Answer

The information is not available in the format requested. However, the data which is available is set out in the following table.

All general practitioners (excluding retainers and registrars) by primary care trust (PCT) area in England, as at 30 September 2002-08
	2002	2003	2004	2005	2006	2007	2008
Burnley, Pendle and Rossendale PCT	129	133	134	132	—	—	—
East Lancashire Teaching PCT	—	—	—	—	221	218	221
Notes:
1. East Lancashire PCT was created on 1 October 2006 from a complete merger of Burnley, Pendle and Rossendale PCT, Hyndbum and Ribble Valley PCT and a part merger of Preston PCT (various wards and parishes). Due to this part merger it is not possible to provide figures which are consistent over a time series prior to 2006. The area of Pendle was serviced by Burnley, Pendle and Rossendale PCT in 2002-05 and by East Lancashire PCT in 2006-08.
2. The Information Centre for health and social care seeks to minimise inaccuracies and the effect of missing and invalid data but responsibility for data accuracy lies with the organisations providing the data. Methods are continually being updated to improve data quality where changes impact on figures already published. This is assessed but unless it is significant at national level figures are not changed. Impact at detailed or local level is footnoted in relevant analyses.
Source:
The Information Centre for health and social care—general and personal medical services statistics.

The numbers of national health service dentists, in Pendle, as at 31 March, 1997 to 2006 are available in Annex E and Annex G of the "NHS Dental Activity and Workforce Report England: 31 March 2006". Annex E provides information by strategic health authority (SHA) and by PCT. Annex G provides information by constituency.This information is based on the old contractual arrangements, which were in place up to and including 31 March 2006. This report, published on 23 August 2006, has already been placed in the Library and is available on the website of the Information Centre for health and social care at:"www.ic.nhs.uk/pubs/dwfactivity"The numbers of dentists with NHS activity during the years ending 31 March, 2007, 2008 and 2009 are available in Table G1 of Annex 3 of the "NHS Dental Statistics for England: 2008-09" report. Information is provided for England and by SHA and PCT but is not available by constituency. This information is based on the new dental contractual arrangements, introduced on 1 April 2006. This report, published on 19 August 2009, has already been placed in the Library and is also available on the website of the Information Centre for health and social care at:"www.ic.nhs.uk/pubs/dentalstats0809"Following a recent consultation exercise, this measure is based on a revised methodology and therefore supersedes any previously published workforce figures relating to the new dental contractual arrangements. It is not comparable to the information collected under the old contractual arrangements. This revised methodology counted the number of dental performers with NHS activity recorded via FP17 claim forms in each year ending 31 March.These published figures relate to a headcount and do not differentiate between full-time and part-time dentists, nor do they account for the fact that some dentists may do more NHS work than others.

Secondary information

Type

Written question

Reference

507 c924-5W; 322224

Session

2009-10

Subjects

Dental services General practitioners Pendle

Contains statistics

Yes

Link

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