HC Deb 09 December 1998 vol 322 cc203-5W
Mr. Gordon Prentice

To ask the Secretary of State for Health if he will rank by English health authority those areas with the poorest dental health. [62532]

Mr. Milburn

The table ranks health authorities in England by decayed, missing or filled teeth of 5-year-old children for the year 1995–96. These results are from a survey co-ordinated by the British Association for the Study of Community Dentistry. Information for Leicestershire Health Authority is not available.

Mean decayed missing or filled teeth by health authority
Health authority Decayed, missing filled teeth Rank
Manchester 3.41 1
Bury and Rochdale 3.15 2
West Pennine 2.99 3
St. Helen's and Knowsley 2.91 4
Sunderland 2.84 5
East Lancashire 2.83 6
Wigan and Bolton 2.76 7
Bradford 2.60 8
Kensington, Chelsea and Westminster 2.39 9
Morecambe Bay 2.36 10
Camden and Islington 2.32 11
Salford and Trafford 2.31 12
Calderdale and Kirklees 2.30 13
East London and the City 2.27 14
Rotherham 2.23 15
Leeds Healthcare 2.23 16
North West Lancashire 2.22 17
County Durham Health Commission 2.21 18
Southampton and South West Hampshire 2.18 19
Wirral 2.16 20
North Cumbria 2.15 21
Wakefield Health Care 2.15 22
Barnet 2.11 23
Ealing, Hammersmith and Hounslow 2.11 24
Tees 2.11 25
South Lancashire 2.10 26
Stockport 2.08 27
Doncaster 2.08 28
Gateshead and South Tyneside 2.05 29
Northumberland 1.95 30
Sheffield 1.94 31
East Riding 1.91 32
Brent and Harrow 1.89 33
Liverpool 1.85 34
North Staffordshire 1.81 35
Redbridge and Waltham Forest 1.79 36
North Cheshire 1.78 37
Sefton 1.77 38
Barnsley 1.77 39
Portsmouth and South East Hampshire 1.77 40
North Yorkshire 1.77 41
North and East Devon 1.76 42
East Norfolk 1.72 43
North Nottinghamshire 1.69 44
South and West Devon 1.67 45
Enfield and Haringey 1.65 46
Berkshire 1.65 47
Herefordshire 1.64 48
Isle of Wight Health Commisison 1.60 49
East and North Hertfordshire 1.57 50
South Humber 1.56 51
Hillingdon 1.55 52
Oxfordshire 1.51 53
Bedfordshire 1.48 54
South Cheshire 1.48 55
Cornwall and Isles of Scilly 1.47 56
Northamptonshire 1.45 57
West Kent 1.43 58
Somerset 1.43 59
Shropshire 1.43 60
South Derbyshire 1.42 61
Wolverhampton 1.41 62
Barking and Havering 1.39 63
Wiltshire 1.39 64
Croydon 1.38 65
Merton, Sutton and Wandsworth 1.37 66
East Surrey 1.36 67
Newcastle and North Tyneside 1.35 68
Lambeth, Southwark and Lewisham 1.30 69
Buckinghamshire 1.29 70
Nottingham 1.29 71
Mean decayed missing or filled teeth by health authority
Health authority Decayed, missing filled teeth Rank
Bexley and Greenwich 1.28 72
Gloucestershire 1.28 73
Dorset 1.25 74
West Surrey 1.22 75
Coventry 1.22 76
West Hertfordshire 1.22 77
North Derbyshire 1.21 78
Cambridge and Huntingdon 1.19 79
East Sussex, Brighton and Hove 1.19 80
Bromley 1.18 81
South Essex 1.16 82
North West Anglia 1.15 83
East Kent 1.13 84
Birmingham 1.08 85
North and Mid Hampshire 1.03 86
Suffolk 1.00 87
West Sussex 0.97 88
Kingston and Richmond 0.97 89
Lincolnshire 0.97 90
Sandwell 0.95 91
Avon 0.92 92
Walsall 0.92 93
North Essex 0.88 94
Warwickshire 0.84 95
Worcestershire 0.84 96
Dudley 0.81 97
South Staffordshire 0.79 98
Solihull 0.56 99
Leicestershire n/a

Source:

Data from the BASCD co-ordinated 1995–96 National Health Service Dental Epidemiological Programme survey of 5-year-old children

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