NHS patients treated in a 12-month period (adults and children) by local health board

The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) guidance recommends that children are recalled for check-ups at intervals of 3 months to 12 months depending on the individual’s oral health status. Therefore, when analysing children treated, the primary statistical measure should be based on children treated in a 12-month period. This StatsWales cube presents data based on a 12-month period. Data is also shown for adults for completeness and this allows for the total number of all patients (adults + children) treated to be measured.

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12 months ending

Number of all patients treated

Per cent of population treated

Number of adults treated

Per cent of adult population treated

Number of children treated

Per cent of child population treated

30 June 2016

1,370,497

44.5

1,026,091

41.8

344,406

55.3

30 September 2016

1,369,991

44.5

1,024,821

41.8

345,170

55.4

31 December 2016

1,382,287

44.9

1,034,171

42.1

348,116

55.9

31 March 2017

1,398,854

45.5

1,046,796

42.6

352,058

56.5

30 June 2017

1,395,489

45.3

1,042,886

42.4

352,603

56.7

30 September 2017

1,397,625

45.4

1,042,426

42.4

355,199

57.1

31 December 2017

1,401,759

45.5

1,045,519

42.5

356,240

57.3

31 March 2018

1,405,838

45.6

1,046,970

42.6

358,868

57.7

30 June 2018

1,407,933

45.7

1,047,723

42.5

360,210

58.0

30 September 2018

1,408,718

45.7

1,047,676

42.5

361,042

58.1

31 December 2018

1,416,823

45.9

1,054,439

42.8

362,384

58.3

31 March 2019

1,428,359

46.3

1,062,709

43.2

365,650

58.9

30 June 2019 Some patients will have been treated before the introduction of the new health boards, i.e. before the 1st April 2019. <br />Care should be taken when using the data for these new health boards, until April 2020 when all patients will have been treated under the new health board boundaries.

Some patients will have been treated before the introduction of the new health boards, i.e. before the 1st April 2019. <br />Care should be taken when using the data for these new health boards, until April 2020 when all patients will have been treated under the new health board boundaries.

1,424,370

46.1

1,058,297

42.9

366,073

59.1

30 September 2019 Some patients will have been treated before the introduction of the new health boards, i.e. before the 1st April 2019. <br />Care should be taken when using the data for these new health boards, until April 2020 when all patients will have been treated under the new health board boundaries.

1,424,846

46.1

1,055,862

42.8

368,984

59.6

31 December 2019 Some patients will have been treated before the introduction of the new health boards, i.e. before the 1st April 2019. <br />Care should be taken when using the data for these new health boards, until April 2020 when all patients will have been treated under the new health board boundaries.

1,424,397

46.1

1,053,514

42.7

370,883

59.9

31 March 2020

1,410,420

45.7

1,042,976

42.3

367,444

59.3

30 June 2020

1,258,702

40.5

929,855

37.4

328,847

53.1

30 September 2020

1,004,794

32.4

746,533

30.0

258,261

41.7

31 December 2020

672,413

21.7

510,320

20.5

162,093

26.2

31 March 2021

408,538

13.2

316,761

12.7

91,777

14.8

30 June 2021

554,323

17.8

419,238

16.8

135,085

21.9

30 September 2021

644,216

20.7

476,440

19.1

167,776

27.2

31 December 2021

710,868

22.9

519,298

20.9

191,570

31.1

31 March 2022

752,503

24.2

545,736

21.9

206,767

33.5

30 June 2022

788,879

25.2

569,386

22.7

219,493

35.4

30 September 2022

853,003

27.2

612,319

24.4

240,684

38.8

31 December 2022

915,814

29.2

656,902

26.2

258,912

41.8

31 March 2023

982,132

31.4

704,070

28.0

278,062

44.9

30 June 2023

985,018

31.5

705,090

28.1

279,928

45.2

30 September 2023

985,303

31.5

705,011

28.1

280,292

45.2

31 December 2023

1,001,785

32.0

718,586

28.6

283,199

45.7

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Title

NHS patients treated in a 12-month period (adults and children) by local health board

Last update

23 May 2024

Next update

September 2024 (provisional)

Publishing organisation

Welsh Government

Source 1

Dental Services, NHS Business Services Authority

Source 2

Mid-year population estimates, Office for National Statistics

Contact email

stats.healthinfo@gov.wales

Designation

National Statistics

Geographical coverage

Wales

Languages covered

English only

Data licensing

You may use and re-use this data free of charge in any format or medium, under the terms of the Open Government License - see http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence

General description

This StatsWales cube presents data for patients treated (adults, children, and all patients) in a rolling 12-month period from the 12-months ending 30 June 2016 onwards.

Data collection and calculation

The data is derived from dental activity forms submitted for payment and processed by NHS Business Services Authority Dental Services.

‘Patients treated’ counts the number of unique patients that have been treated during the last 12 months; each patient is counted only once even if they have received multiple episodes of care over the period.

The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) guidance recommends that children are recalled for check-ups at intervals of 3 months to 12 months depending on the individual’s oral health status. Therefore, when analysing children treated, the primary statistical measure should be based on children treated in a 12-month period.

This StatsWales cube presents data based on a 12-month period. Data is also shown for adults for completeness and this allows for the total number of all patients (adults + children) treated to be measured.

The coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic has had a significant impact on the way dental services have been provided in Wales and therefore affect the data collected from the last quarter of the financial year 2019-20 and the full financial year 2020-21 onwards.

Patients treated within a 12 month period is affected by the change to health board boundaries, following Bridgend moving into the Cwm Taf Morgannwg health board on 1 April 2019. The dataset counts unique individuals receiving dental services in the 12-month period. When an individual has received dental services more than once in the 12-month period in the same health board, only details of the last treatment would be counted in the dataset to avoid double counting. However, because data is collected over a 12-month period where the health board boundary changed, the same individual may be counted in Bridgend’s old health board (Abertawe Bro Morgannwg (ABMU)) and its new health board (Cwm Taf Morgannwg or Swansea Bay) depending on the date of the last treatment. For example, if a patient was treated in Bridgend in February 2019 and again in May 2019, they will be counted in the ABMU data for the March 2019 list but the Cwm Taf Morgannwg data from the June 2019 list. And if a patient was treated at Bridgend in March 2019 and has not visited a dentist since, they will be counted in the ABMU data for the March 2019 list, and the Swansea Bay data from the June 2019 list.
To give a more reflective figure for the percentage of patients treated (total, adults and children), population estimates of the new health boards have been created using additional data of patients treated in Bridgend after 1st April 2019 (sourced from NHS Business Services Authority). For example, data for July-September 2019 shows of the patients treated in Bridgend, 67% received a treatment after 1st April 2019 at Cwm Taf Morgannwg. Therefore, for the 12 months ending September 2019, the denominator for the new health boards is estimated as:
Swansea Bay’s eligible population = Swansea + Neath Port Talbot + ((0.33) * Bridgend)
Cwm Taf Morgannwg’s eligible population = Rhondda Cynon Taf + Merthyr Tydfil + ((0.67) * Bridgend)

Data for the 12 month period ending March 2020 will be the first time period where the boundary issue will not affect the data. Caution is advised when using the data for the time periods which overlap the health board boundary change.

Frequency of publication

Quarterly

Data reference periods

Data are shown for patients seen in the 12-months ending 30 June 2016 onwards.

Users, uses and context

Please find this information in the related statistical publication, as per given weblink.

Keywords

Dental; NHS Dental; Patients treated

Statistical quality

Please find this information in the related statistical publication, as per given weblink.

Weblinks

NICE guidance recommends that adults are recalled for check-ups at intervals of 3 months to 24 months depending on the individual’s oral health status. Therefore, when analysing adults treated, the primary statistical measure should be based on adults treated in a 24-month period. All data on a 24-month basis is shown in the HLTH0515 StatsWales cube at the link here: https://statswales.gov.wales/Catalogue/Health-and-Social-Care/General-Dental-Services/Current-Contract/NHSpatientstreatedina24monthperiodforadultsandchildren-by-localhealthboard-patienttype

NHS dental services:
https://gov.wales/nhs-dental-services

NHS dental services quality report:
https://www.gov.wales/sites/default/files/statistics-and-research/2021-09/nhs-dental-services-quality-report-557.pdf

Name

HLTH0504