Publication, Part of NHS Dental Statistics

NHS Dental Statistics for England, 2021-22, Annual Report

Publication Date:: 25 Aug 2022
Geographic Coverage:: England
Geographical Granularity:: Regions, Dental practices, Integrated Care Boards, Local Authorities
Date Range:: 01 Apr 2021 to 30 Jun 2022

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Change to report frequency

From the 2022-23 reporting year onwards, this NHS Dental Statistics publication series will be comprised of a single annual release; the biannual report will no longer be produced.

16 December 2022 09:00 AM

Band 2 activity undercounting - December 2019 - March 2022

The NHS Business Services Authority (BSA) have identified an error in the data provided which underpins the NHS Dental Statistics publication from December 2019 to March 2022. Some data for Adult patients in receipt of income-related Employment and Support Allowance (ESA) who received Band 2 dental treatment were not included and therefore the published counts are lower than they should be.

The NHS BSA have quantified the impact of this missing data and have ascertained that the missing data accounts for <3% of all band 2 activity, and <1% of activity across all treatment bands.

Please note that no other treatment bands are affected, nor are data pertaining to patients seen, or clinical activity.

Due to the scale of this issue we will not be publishing corrected versions of this data. This issue will be rectified for data in the 2022/23 Annual publication.

8 March 2023 00:00 AM

Publication of corrected patients seen data

The NHS Business Services Authority (BSA) identified an error in the reporting of the number of dental patients seen figures affecting the period April 2021 to March 2022. During the period affected by the Covid-19 pandemic many dental practices began triaging patients to determine the required care. Patients who were only triaged do not meet the criteria for a patient having been seen however they were incorrectly included within the counts of patients seen from April 2021 to March 2022 and as a result the counts published in the 2021-2022 annual reports are approximately 0.4% higher than they should be at a national level.

The NHS BSA have corrected this reporting error and NHS England have republished corrected data for April 2021 to March 2022 the 2022-2023 biannual report.

We apologise for any inconvenience this has caused.

24 August 2023 09:30 AM

Summary

This annual report brings together information on NHS dental activity in England for the 12-month period to 31 March 2022 (including clinical treatments and dental workforce) and information on the number of patients seen by an NHS dentist up to 30 June 2022.

This publication includes information about patients seen and NHS dental activity broken down to dental practice level.

To limit COVID-19 transmissions, dental practices were instructed to close and cease all routine dental care from the 25th March 2020, and began to reopen from 8th June 2020. The data reported in the publication including activity, patient numbers, finances and treatments, will be lower than expected during the time period of restrictions. Further information can be found in our 2019/20 Annual publication supplementary report and the Annex 5 data quality statement - see links below.