More NHS dental patients seen in England
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Figures released by HSCIC show that during the years 2013 and 2014 a total of 30 million patients saw an NHS dentist, 1.9 million more than in 2006, although expressed as a percentage of the population this is a slight decrease since then. During the second quarter (Jul-Sep) of 2014 an estimated 10 million courses of treatment were provided, with increases in Band 1 and Urgent and decreases in Bands 2 and 3.
The Health and Social Care Information Centre (HSCIC) has released NHS dental statistics for England during the second quarter of 2014/15 and patients seen in the 24 months ending December 31, 2014.
They show that a total of 30.0 million patients were seen an increase of 1.9 million on the March 2006 baseline. However this represents 55.7% of the population compared with the March 2006 when the equivalent figure was 55.6%.
The number of children seen by an NHS dentist is 2.0% above the March 2006 baseline of 7.8 million, although the percentage of children seen (69.1%) is below the March 2006 figure of 70.2.
There were an estimated 10.0 million courses of treatments (CoT) in the second quarter of 2014/15, an increase of 27,567 (0.3%) on the same period the previous year. CoT increased for Band 1 and Urgent treatments and decreased for Band 2, Band 3 and Other.
During quarter 2 of 2014/15 paying adults accounted for the largest percentage of patients receiving treatment in each treatment band with the exception of Band 3 treatments, where non-paying adults received 51.8% of these treatments. The HSCIC says this difference ‘may reflect a lower standard of dental health among these patients’.
Population has increased by over 3 million in Engl
Dear All,The population alone has increased by some 3 million alone in England and over 4 million in the UK, since 2006!
Seeing an 'extra' 1.9million in numbers since 2006 doesn't even cover the 'new' people, let alone represent ANY kind of real increase - indeed many are attracted here for the NHS services being 'free' or low cost so if most of those 3million have registered with an NHS Dentist, then on the balance of probabilities, less of the indiginous population are now being cared for under the NHS system!
Of course nobody is asking Access to WHAT?
Pure centralised numbers + statistical manipulation - they claim child dental health is improving, yet our hospitals are overflowing with ROTTEN TEETH admissions occupying hospital beds as the No.1 medical reason any child is hospitalised in England, is rotten teeth now :(
So they use 1060s methods of squinty-eyed can we see a cavity, Yes or No to collect their stats, when there could be double that number in UNSEEN cavities but they don't measure those :o
Of course if they do more accurate HEALTH IMPACT measures like PUMA, then suddenly we realise child dental health consequences and suffering are increasingly worsening in England :(
If one plans services and prevention (sic) on such flawed centralised Stats, it's easy to see how one can then come up with the WRONG plans, systems and strategies based upon those, but by mis-representing the Stats so manipulatively to the Public, is this a deliberate ploy to hide the REAL extent of problems from the Public ???
One has to ask that Question now when there appears to be a reluctance or even deliberate 'SPIN' that avoids full openess and transparency to the Public, from Centralised sources!
It's time to start holding people to account pre-election IF they can't/won't be fully open and honest about the extent of our worsening dental problems now IMHO.
Yours clearly,
Tony.
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