Dentistry (Hansard, 27 October 1993)

§ Mr. Blunkett
To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many dentists, who have not given notice to leave the dental list, have given written notice to each family health service authority to terminate or de-register some or all of their capitation arrangements for child patients each month since July 1992.
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Dr. Mawhinney [holding answer 21 October 1993]: Tables will be placed in the Library showing, for each month, the number of dentists in contract with each family health services authority who have de-registered child patients since July 1992. Where dentists hold contracts with more than one FHSA, the number of dentists quoted could include duplications. The information provided by FHSAs weekly since July 1992 shows that in the period up to 15 October 1993, 239 dentists gave written notification to de-register some child patients. This represents 1.37 per cent. of the number of dentists, 17,400, in contract with FHSAs at 30 June 1992.
The number of children de-registered was 1,734. At 31 August 1993 child registrations were 8 per cent. higher than at 1 July 1992.

§ Mr. Blunkett
To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many dentists who have not given notice to leave the dental list have given written notice to each family health service authority to de-register some or all of their continuing care arrangements for adult patients in each month since July 1992; how many dentists have de-registered patients; and how many patients have been de-registered.

§ Dr. Mawhinney
[holding answer 21 October 1993]: Tables will be placed in the Library showing for each month, the number of dentists in contract with each family health services authority who have de-registered adult patients and the total number of adult patients de-registered since July 1992. Where dentists hold contracts with more than one family health service authority, the numbers of dentists quoted could include duplications. The information provided weekly by family health service authorities since July 1992 shows that in the period up to 15 October 1993, 2,222 dentists gave written notification to de-register 556,204 adult patients.
Despite these notified de-registrations, the total number of adult patients registered with a dentist in England increased by over 0.884 million (4.3 per cent.) from 20.580 million to 21.465 million over the period 1 July 1992 to 31 August 1993.