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Written question asked by Lord Colwyn (Conservative) on Friday, 23 November 2018, in the House of Lords. It was due for an answer on Friday, 7 December 2018. It was answered by Lord O'Shaughnessy (Conservative) on Tuesday, 4 December 2018 on behalf of the Department of Health and Social Care.

Dental Health: Antibiotics

Question

To ask Her Majesty's Government how many antibiotic prescriptions were issued by general dental practitioners in England in each of the last five years.

Answer

Information on the numbers of prescriptions for all antimicrobials, including antibiotics, issued by general dental practitioners is only available for the complete years of 2016 and 2017. In these years 3,198,411 and 2,977,302 National Health Service prescriptions were issued respectively.

From 2013 to 2017, the trend of antimicrobial prescriptions continued to decrease by 24.8%. The number of daily defined doses of antimicrobials per 1,000 inhabitants per day prescribed by dentists was 0.19 in 2013 and 0.16 in 2016; with an 8.3% decrease from 2016 to 2017. In the previous five years the proportions of daily defined doses of antibiotics issued by general dental practitioners out of all prescriptions, from hospital inpatients and outpatients, general medical practitioners and other community practitioners, were 4.8% in 2013, 4.8% in 2014, 4.5% in 2015, 4.6% in 2016, 5.2% in 2017.

Secondary information

Type
Written question
Reference
HL11750
Session
2017-19
Related items
Dental Health: Antibiotics
Wednesday, 22 May 2019
Written questions
House of Lords
Grouped for answer
Yes
Subjects
Antibiotics Dentistry Prescriptions Dental health
Contains statistics
Yes
Link
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