Accident and Emergency Departments: Dental Services
The question
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many (a) attendances at accident and emergency departments and (b) emergency admissions there were for dentistry-related issues in each of the last 10 years.
Answered by Stephen Kinnock
The following table shows how many attendances to accident and emergency departments there were for dentistry-related issues, specifically those with a first diagnosis code of dental abscess or dental caries, for each of the last four years:
Year | 2020/21 | 2021/22 | 2022/23 | 2023/24 |
Attendances | 60,330 | 69,859 | 67,310 | 73,088 |
Source: the data is published on NHS Digital, and is available at the following link: https://digital.nhs.uk/data-and-information/publications/statistical/hospital-accident--emergency-activity/2023-24
Note: due to changes in recording methods, data from the last ten years is not available.
In addition, the following table shows the number of emergency admissions for dentistry-related issues, specifically the number if Finished Admission Episodes for dental-related issues, for each of the last ten years:
Year | Admissions |
2014/15 | 16,279 |
2015/16 | 16,749 |
2016/17 | 17,285 |
2017/18 | 18,744 |
2018/19 | 20,543 |
2019/20 | 22,129 |
2020/21 | 17,540 |
2021/22 | 19,340 |
2022/23 | 19,979 |
2023/24 | 23,109 |
Source: the data is published on NHS Digital, and is available at the following link: https://digital.nhs.uk/data-and-information/publications/statistical/hospital-admitted-patient-care-activity/2023-24
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