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FOI Request

Disclosure ID
FOI/02456
Request Date
May 21, 2018
Subject
Community Dental Services (2)
Description
  1. Did your organisation provide a community dental service*? *By community dental service we mean a service that provides dental care in community settings to children and vulnerable adults, including elderly and housebound people, people with physical disabilities or mental illness. Yes, we did provide a community dental service. Please continue to Question 2. No, we did not provide a community dental service. Please provide the name of the organisation that provides this service in your geographical area. You do not need to respond to the remainder of the questions in this FOIA request
  2. How many community dental service(s)* were provided by your organisation? *Community dental services providing dental care to a population living in a particular geographical area, not specific functions or parts of a service.
  3. Has your service been the subject of a tendering process in the last year (6th April 2017 to 5th April 2018)?
  4. Will your service be going for tender within the next calendar year?
  5. What geographical area(s) does this service/these services cover?
  6. How many of each of the following agreements and/or contracts does/did your organisation have to provide community dental services? Please write ‘0’ if you provide no services under a particular contract/agreement type
  7. 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 year? If ‘yes’, then please continue to Question 8 If ‘no’, then please proceed to Question 9
  8. Did your organisation receive the results of this public health needs assessment(s)?
  9. For each band please enter the relevant number corresponding to the column and row labels. *By WTE we mean ‘whole time equivalent’. This is the total hours worked by all dentists divided by average hours worked by a full-time dentist. Please write ‘0’ if there are no staff at a specific band
  10. For the Band C specialists you have please enter the relevant number corresponding to the column and row labels. *By WTE we mean ‘whole time equivalent’. This is the total hours worked by all dentists divided by average hours worked by a full-time dentist. Please write ‘0’ if there are no staff at a specific band
  11. For each grade please enter the relevant number corresponding to the column and row labels. *By WTE we mean ‘whole time equivalent’. This is the total hours worked by all dentists divided by average hours worked by a full-time dentist. Please write ‘0’ if there are no staff at a specific grade.
  12. Please answer the following questions (Questions 1216) for all the community dental service(s) that your organisation provide/provided. What percentage of your continuing care patients have been offered a recall appointment within NICE dental recall guidelines in the past year?
  13. How many patients have your community dental service(s) provided treatment for in the 6th April 2016 to 5th April 2017 year?
  14. How many courses of treatment have your community dental service(s) provided in the 6th April 2016 to 5th April 2017 year?
  15. During the financial year 6th April 2017 to 5th April 2018, how many patients were referred and accepted into your community dental service(s) from:
  16. Of all new patients referred and accepted into your community dental service(s) during the financial year 6th April 2017 to 5th April 2018, how many waited or are scheduled to wait more than 18 weeks for:
Response
  1. Yes
  2. Number of services: 2
  3. No
  4. Yes
  5. :-
    1. Blackpool, Wyre and Fylde.
    2. North Lancashire
  6. Number of Personal Dental Service (PDS) agreements: 1 Number of SPCDS contracts: 1 Number of TDS contracts: 0 Number of NHS standard contracts : 0 Other: 1
  7. No
  8. N/A
  9. See table below*
  10. See table below*
  11. See table below*
  12. This information is not available
  13. 21838
  14. 14638
  15. A General Dental Practitioner (GDP): 2263 Another healthcare professional (apart from a GDP): 765
  16. Initial assessment: 451 Commencement of treatment: 338

Question 9*

Band Currently (today) how many dentists are employed by your organisation under Salaried primary dental care terms and conditions: Currently how many dentists do you hold as bank staff: Currently how many dentist positions are vacant: Between 6th April 2017 to 5th April 2018 how many (headcount):
headcount WTE* headcount headcount posts became vacant vacant posts were advertised vacant posts were filled. Please do not include partially filled positions
Band A  0 0 0 0  0 0 0
Band B  17 10.4 3 1  2  1 1
Band C Clinical  3 2.6 0 0 0 0 0
Band C Managerial  0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Band C Clinical Managerial:  2 2 0 0  1 1 1
Other dentist:  0 0 0 0 0 0 0

Question 10*

Headcount WTE*
Paediatric Dentistry  1 1
Special Care Dentistry  3 2.6

  Question 11*

Grade Currently (today), how many dentists are employed on each of the given grades by your organisation on Hospital Medical and Dental Contracts and who perform:
headcount WTE*
Dental Core Trainee (DCT/SHO):  0  0
Specialty Trainee (StR)  0  0
Staff and Associate Specialist grades  0 0
Consultant  0 0
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