FOI Request
- Disclosure ID
- FOI/01060
- Request Date
- June 29, 2016
- Subject
- Community Dental Service
- Description
Please can you provide the following information for the community dental service(s) provided by your organisation.
1. Does your organisation provide a community dental service?
2. How many community dental service(s)* are provided by your organisation?3.What geographical area(s) does this service/these services cover?
4. How many Personal Dental Service (PDS) agreements does your organisation currently have to provide community dental services?
5. How many SPCDS contracts/agreements does your organisation currently have to provide community dental services?
6.Have/has any of the geographic area(s) covered by the community dental service(s) that your organisation provides been the subject of a dental public health needs assessment in the past two years?
7.Did your organisation receive the results of this public health needs assessment(s)? NO
8. Currently, how many (headcount) dentists are employed by your organisation on ‘Salaried Primary Dental Care Service Contracts’ in each of the following bands?
9.Currently, how many whole time equivalent* (WTE) dentists are employed by your organisation on community dentists’ terms and conditions in each of the following bands?
10. Currently, how many (headcount) dentists are employed on each of the following grades by your organisation on Hospital Medical and Dental Contracts and who perform paediatric or special care dentistry?
11.Currently, how many whole time equivalent* (WTE) dentists are employed on each of the following grades by your organisation on Hospital Medical and Dental Contracts and who perform paediatric or special care dentistry?
Please answer the following questions (Questions 12-17) for all the community dental service(s) that your organisation provide.
12. What percentage of your continuing care patients have been offered a recall appointment within NICE dental recall guidelines in the past year? This information not available.
13. How many patients has/have your community dental service(s) provided treatment for in each of the following years?
6th April 2013 to 5th April 2014 – 9443
6th April 2014 to 5th April 2015 – 9847
6th April 2015 to 5th April 2016 – 11944
14. During the financial year 6th April 2015 to 5th April 2016, how many patients were referred and accepted into your community dental service(s) from a General Dental Practitioner (GDP)?
15.During the financial year 6th April 2015 to 5th April 2016, how many patients were referred and accepted into your community dental service(s) from another healthcare professional (apart from a GDP)?
16.Of all new patients referred and accepted into your community dental service(s) during the financial year 6th April 2015 to 5th April 2016, how many waited or are scheduled to wait more than 18 weeks for initial assessment?
17. Of all new patients referred and accepted into your community dental service(s) during the financial year 6th April 2015 to 5th April 2016, how many waited or are scheduled to wait more than 18 weeks for commencement of treatment?
- Response
1. Yes
2. 2
3. Blackpool, Wyre & Fylde, North Lancashire (Lancaster)
4. 1
5. 1
6. Yes
7. No
8. Band A = 0, Band B = 13, Band C Clinical = 2, Band C Managerial = 2, other dentist = 0
9. Band A = 0, Band B = 9.0, Band C Clinical = 1.4 Band C Managerial = 1.8, other dentist = 0
10. Dental Core Trainee (DCT/SHO) = 0, Speciality trainee (StR) = 0, Staff and Associate Specialist grades = 0, Consultant = 0
11. Dental Core Trainee (DCT/SHO) = 0, Speciality Trainee (StR)=0 Staff and Associate Specialist grade = o, Consultant =0
12. Information not available
13.
6th April 2013 to 5th April 2014 – 9443
6th April 2014 to 5th April 2015 – 9847
6th April 2015 to 5th April 2016 – 11944
14. 3645
15. 3942
16. 388
17. 337