Dental Services: Broxtowe
The question
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many people are affected by the shortage of NHS dentists in Broxtowe constituency.
Answered by Stephen Kinnock
We know there are challenges with accessing National Health Service dentistry across the country. 28% of adults in England, or 13 million people, are estimated to have an unmet need for NHS dentistry.
The following table shows the number of dentists per 100,000 people in the Nottingham and Nottinghamshire Integrated Care Board (ICB), from 2019/20 to 2023/24:
Years | Dentists per 100,000 population in Nottingham and Nottinghamshire ICB | Average number of dentists per 100,000 population across all ICBs in England |
2019/20 | 51.2 | 52.9 |
2020/21 | 40.8 | 48.6 |
2021/22 | 45.2 | 51.0 |
2022/23 | 48.6 | 50.3 |
2023/24 | 49.7 | 49.5 |
Source: data is published by the NHS Business Services Authority and is available at the following link: https://www.nhsbsa.nhs.uk/statistical-collections/dental-england/dental-statistics-england-202324
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