§ Mr. RedmondTo ask the Secretary of State for Health how many dental patients have been deregistered in each family health services authority since July 1992.
§ Dr. MawhinneyThe information is contained in the table. Over the period 1 July 1992 to 4 February 1994 dentists notified their family health services authorities of 632,242 patient deregistrations. Over the shorter period of 1 July 1992 to 30 November 1994 there was a net increase in patient registrations of 1.890 million.
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Number of patients deregistered since July 1992, by family health services authority England Family health service authority Number of patients deregistered England 631,242 Cleveland 2,569 Cumbria 13,118 Durham 344 Northumberland 2,650 Gateshead 717 Newcastle-upon-Tyne — North Tyneside 1 South Tyneside 11 Sunderland — Humberside 10,473 North Yorkshire 9,463 Bradford — Calderdale 843 Kirklees 678 Leeds 8,363 Wakefield 837 Derbyshire 19,084 Leicestershire 11,577 Lincolnshire — Nottinghamshire 4,798 Barnsley — Doncaster 23 Rotherham 44 Sheffield 1,203 Cambridgeshire 5,128 Norfolk 28,775 Suffolk 6,767 Bedfordshire 1,317 Hertfordshire 6,957 Barnet 4,862 Brent and Harrow 1,499 Eating, Hammersmith and Hounslow 35 Hillingdon — Kensington, Westminster and Chelsea 2,288 Essex 14,852 Barking and Havering 3,825 Camden and Islington 296 City and East London 481 Enfield and Haringey 981 Redbridge and Waltham Forest 2,202 East Sussex 14,785 Kent 54,316 Greenwich and Bexley 4,305 Bromley 13,161 Lambeth, Southwark and Lewisham 446 Surrey 26,573 West Sussex 35,157 Croydon 1,866 Kingston and Richmond 962 Merton, Sutton and Wandsworth 1,742 Dorset 22,544 Hampshire 24,058 Wiltshire 11,463 Isle of Wight 3,594 Berkshire 25,772 Buckinghamshire 18,818 Northamptonshire 3,075 Oxfordshire 25,407
Family health service authority Number of patients deregistered Avon 15,236 Cornwall and Isles of Scilly 14,548 Devon 27,076 Gloucestershire 49,521 Somerset 3,706 Hereford and Worcester 3,575 Shropshire 655 Staffordshire 7,457 Warwickshire 9,676 Birmingham 2,178 Coventry 1,540 Dudley — Sandwell — Solihull 2,505 Walsall — Wolverhampton — Cheshire 6,402 Liverpool 422 St. Helens and Knowsley 14 Sefton 590 Wirral 604 Lancashire 24,530 Bolton 631 Bury 675 Manchester 298 Oldham — Rochdale 1,904 Salford 151 Stockport 1,256 Tameside 742 Trafford 245 Wigan —