§ Mr. BurstowTo ask the Secretary of State for Health how many(a) principal and (b) assistant dentists there were in (i) England, (ii) each NHS region and (iii) each strategic health authority who (A) offered NHS treatment and (B) had vacancies for NHS patients, in each of the last five years. [146218]
§ Ms Rosie Winterton[pursuant to her reply, 14 January 2004, Official Report, c. 800 W]: I regret that the strategic health authority figures for general dentist service dentists for 2003 in table 1 of my previous response, separately for principal dentists and dental assistants were incorrect, and should have read as follows.
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Table 1: Number of general dental service dentists in England by region and strategic health authority for September 1999 to 2003 2003 Principal Dentists 2003 Assistant Dentists England 16,649 1,312 Region Northern and Yorkshire — — Trent — — West Midlands — — North West — — Eastern — — London — — South East — — South and West — —
Table 1: Number of general dental service dentists in England by region and strategic health authority for September 1999 to 2003 2003 Principal Dentists 2003 Assistant Dentists Strategic Health Authority Avon, Gloucestershire and Wiltshire 786 58 Bedfordshire and Hertfordshire 602 62 Birmingham and The Black Country 663 50 Cheshire and Merseyside 779 36 County Durham and Tees Valley 346 8 Coventry, Warks, Herefordshire and Worcs. 489 31 Cumbria and Lancashire 601 23 Dorset and Somerset 418 38 Essex 462 57 Greater Manchester 852 37 Hampshire and Isle of Wight 567 77 Kent and Medway 507 63 Leics, Northants and Rutland 424 17 Norfolk, Suffolk and Cambridgeshire 658 119 North and East Yorkshire and N. Lines 499 18 North Central London 561 36 North East London 438 54 North West London 787 82 Northumberland, Tyne and Wear 469 13 Shropshire and Staffordshire 430 13 South East London 525 44 South West London 534 50 South West Peninsula 555 47 South Yorkshire 405 20 Surrey and Sussex 1,084 87 Thames Valley 795 78 Trent 724 69 West Yorkshire 689 25 Note:
Assistant dentist numbers do not include VDPs (vocational dental practitioners).