§ Mr. CoxTo ask the Secretary of State for Health how many dental practices in each London borough council accepted NHS patients in 1995. [33105]
§ Mr. MaloneThe information available is shown in the table.
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General Dental Service: number of dentists who had additions to their register, by London local borough council for year ending 31 December 1995 Local authority Number of dentists All local authority districts 3,294 City of London 11 Barking and Dagenham 41 Barnet 169 Bexley 79 Brent 138 Bromley 136 Camden 143 Croydon 148 Ealing 146 Enfield 105 Greenwich 77 Hackney 65 Hammersmith and Fulham 93 Haringey 121 Harrow 89 Havering 74 Hillingdon 96 Hounslow 105 Islington 78 Kensington and Chelsea 74 Kingston upon Thames 71 Lambeth 113 Lewisham 114 Merton 62 Newham 70 Redbridge 98 Richmond upon Thames 84 Southwark 111 Sutton 90
General Dental Service: number of dentists who had additions to their register, by London local borough council for year ending 31 December 1995 Local authority Number of dentists Tower Hamlets 76 Waltham Forest 85 Wandsworth 145 City of Westminster 187 Additions to the register include instances of patients registering with a dentist after a break in attendance and instances of reinstatement of registrations that have been cancelled in error. Some dentists have contracts in more than one London Borough Council area. Where appropriate, these dentists have been included in the calculation for each London Borough Council area in which they are under contract.
Counts relate to registrations for which payments were authorised during the year. Payments are made one month in arrears.