HC Deb 05 March 1991 vol 187 cc116-7W
Sir John Hunt

To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many dentists in the Bromley area have withdrawn from the national health service since the introduction of the new dental contract.

Mr. Dorrell

Since the introduction of the new dental contract on 1 October 1990, two dentists in the Bromley area have withdrawn from the national health service. This compares with eight withdrawals for the corresponding period in the previous year.

Table showing availability and utilisation rates for health authorities in the Greater London area. (Figures as at 30 November 1990)
(a) (b) (c)
Total Number of Units Percent availability Percent utilisation
North West Thames
Barnet 930 1 1
Ealing 328 100 97
Harrow 639 100 97
Hillingdon 904 92 100
Hounslow and Spelthorne 1 1 1
Parkside 1,991 96 96
Riverside 1,908 94 100
North East Thames
Barking Havering and Brentwood 1,247 92 85
Bloomsbury 1 1 1
City and Hackney 1,139 91 97
Enfield 510 93 91
Hampstead 1,029 98 87
Haringey 402 99 100
Islington 1 1 1
Newham 412 98 98
Redbridge 476 78 95
Tower Hamlets 1,165 1 1
Waltham Forest 802 87 86
South East Thames
Bexley 1 1 1
Bromley 1 1 1
Camberwell 799 92 93
Greenwich 805 90 89
Lewisham and North Southwark 1 1 1
West Lambeth 1 1 1
South West Thames
Croydon 780 96 100
Kingston and Esher 681 96 84
Merton and Sutton 1 1 1
Richmond Twickenham and Roehampton 417 99 95
Wandsworth 1,141 85 86
SHAs for the London Post-Graduate Teaching Hospitals
Bethlem and Maudsley 307 100 90
Hospital for Sick Children 903 97 91
Hammersmith and Queen Charlotte 623 95 93
National Neurology 240 100 93
Royal Marsden 323 97 94
National Heart and Chest 557 86 93
1 Figures not provided.

Notes:

(b) Percentage of units available for letting out of the total stock.

(c) Percentage of (b) actually occupied.