Written question asked by Preet Kaur Gill (Labour) on Wednesday, 20 March 2024, in the House of Commons. It was due for an answer on Monday, 25 March 2024 (named day). A holding answer was provided on Monday, 25 March 2024. A substantive answer was provided by Andrea Leadsom (Conservative) on Tuesday, 9 April 2024 on behalf of the Department of Health and Social Care.
NHS 111: Dental Health
- Question
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To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer of 28 February 2024 to Question 13013 on NHS 111: Dental Health, how many calls NHS 111 received relating to the categories of (a) Toothache without Dental Injury, (b) Dental Problems, (c) Other Dental Problems- Fillings, Crowns Bridges, Appliances etc, (d) Dental Module, (e) Dental Bleeding, (f) Toothache After Dental Injury, (g) Dental Injury and (h) Total volume of Triages with a Dental Symptom in each financial year since 2010-11.
- Answer
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On 7 February 2024, we published Faster, simpler and fairer: our plan to recover and reform NHS dentistry, which is backed by £200 million and will fund approximately 2.5 million additional appointments, or more than 1.5 million additional courses of dental treatment. The plan sets out our actions to improve dental access for patients across the country, and to address the challenges facing National Health Service dentistry.
The following table shows how many NHS 111 calls were received, broken down into the mentioned categories, each year since 2018, the earliest year this data is available:
Symptom Group
2018/19
2019/20
2020/21
2021/22
2022/23
Toothache
625, 582
629, 306
928,000
794,024
868, 527
Dental Problems
2,270
16, 533
34, 377
54,738
58, 512
Other Dental Problems, such as fillings, crowns, bridges, appliances, etc.
84,095
67, 876
101,822
72,474
70,380
Dental Module
67
30
738
955
139
Dental Bleeding
14, 166
13, 362
17, 962
13, 916
16, 736
Toothache after Dental Injury
12,047
11,621
12, 584
13, 863
15, 154
Dental Injury
184
205
558
484
118
Total Triages with a dental symptom
738, 611
738, 933
1,096,041
950, 454
1,029,566
The above table provides the same information as for PQ13013, with one error to be corrected shortly on Hansard.
Secondary information
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- 19659
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- 2023-24
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- Dental health NHS 111
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- Yes
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