§ Mr. WigleyTo ask the Secretary of State for Wales, how many general dental practitioners have resigned from the NHS in Gwynedd over the past two years.
§ Mr. RichardsAccording to information supplied by the Gwynedd family health services authority, 12 dentists have resigned from the dental list since 1 January 1993. During this period nine dentists have commenced provided general dental services under NHS arrangements.
§ Mr. WigleyTo ask the Secretary of State for Wales, how many NHS dental patients have been deregistered by general dental practitioners in Gwynedd since September 1993.
§ Mr. RichardsFrom information supplied by the Gwynedd Family Health Services Authority, 6,864 adult patients have been deregistered since the beginning of192W September 1993; during that period no children have been deregistered.
This is a cumulative total and does not indicate how many of those patients subsequently registered with another dentist.
§ Mr. MorganTo ask the Secretary of State for Wales if he will give the numbers of dental patients de-registered from the NHS by their dentist during each of 1992, 1993 and 1994 for each family health service authority area in Wales. [15435]
§ Mr. RedwoodFrom the information supplied by family health services authorities, the numbers of patients de-registered by their dentists is as follows:
1992 1993 1994 Clwyd 2,335 568 6,859 Dyfed 225 1,015 2,635 Gwent 490 1,073 2,977 Gwynedd 4,960 3,031 5,213 Mid Glamorgan 31 86 581 Powys 0 0 0 South Glamorgan 151 3,914 1,432 West Glamorgan 0 0 44 This information
- a) was supplied for management purpose only;
- b) has been collected only since 1 August 1992;
- c) is not statistically validated;
- d) does not indicate how many of these patients subsequently registered with another dentist.