§ Mr. BlunkettTo ask the Secretary of State for Health how many women were eligible for free dental service during pregnancy and one year after the birth of the child in each of the past three financial years.
§ Dr. MawhinneyThis information is not available in the form requested.
§ Mr. BlunkettTo ask the Secretary of State for Health how many people have been deregistered by their dentists in each regional health authority since 1 July 1992; and how many dentists in each of the RHA areas have been involved in deregistrations.
§ Dr. Mawhinney[holding answer 20 June 1994]: The information is shown in the tables. Over a similar period total patient registrations rose by 1,049,178 or 3.8 per cent.
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Table 2 General Dental Services, adult and child patients deregistered, the number of dentists deregistering patients from week ending 8 July 1994 to 10 June 1994 and the number of additions to dentists' registers1 during April 1994, by region. England Region Number deregistered Number of1 additions to dentists' registers Dentists deregistering2adults Dentists deregistering2children England 28,631 1,100,653 85 12 Northern and Yorkshire 3,295 164,009 8 0 Trent 2,916 90,373 3 1 South Thames 5,109 154,977 25 4 North Thames 937 164,422 9 0 West Midlands 2,360 95,421 4 0 North West 1,844 177,826 17 6 East Anglian and Oxford 5,328 98,982 4 0 South West 6,842 154,643 15 1 Source: Dental Practice Board
1Includes transfers of patients from one dentist to another and inclusions on a dentist's list of a former patient whose registration had lapsed.
2Some dentists will have deregistered adults and child patients and will appear in both columns.