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date	15/10/2015
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Dental Services
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what assessment he has made of the availability of NHS dentist places in (a) High Peak constituency, (b) Derbyshire Clinical Commissioning Group and (c) Tameside and Glossop Clinical Commissioning Group in each of the last five years.
tabling member constituency	High Peak
tabling member printed	Andrew Bingham
uin	12014
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/10/2015 answer text <p>NHS England is responsible for commissioning primary and secondary care dental services to meet local need. NHS England advises that oral health needs assessments for general dentistry are being conducted for areas that include Tameside and Glossop and Derbyshire.</p><br /><p>Overall, access continues to increase with the latest access data showing 30 million patients were seen by a dentist in the 24 month period ending 30 June 2015. This is 1.7 million more patients than May 2010.</p><br /><p>There is further to go, and this is why the Government is committed to increasing access still further through reform of the dental contract to incentivise dentists to focus on prevention as well as treatment and, by seeing patients at intervals appropriate to their clinical need, freeing up spaces for additional patients to be seen.</p> answering member constituency North East Bedfordshire answering member printed Alistair Burt question first answered 23/10/2015 13:46:01 answering member 1201 label Biography information for Alistair Burt
tabling member	3994 label Biography information for Andrew Bingham

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date	04/09/2015
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Wheelchairs: Out-patients
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what assessment he has made of the adequacy of the current levels of funding within the NHS for wheelchair provision for outpatients.
tabling member constituency	High Peak
tabling member printed	Andrew Bingham
uin	9073
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/09/2015 answer text <p>Wheelchair services are the responsibility of local clinical commissioning groups (CCGs). No information is currently held centrally about CCGs’ expenditure on wheelchair services or the level of service that they provide, including information about access and patient experience, that would enable the transparent assessment and benchmarking of provision for outpatients.</p><p> </p><p><strong> </strong></p><p> </p><p>NHS England has recently established a new national wheelchair dataset, which went live from 1 July. This will enable the use of data in future to drive improvement in wheelchair services.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency North East Bedfordshire answering member printed Alistair Burt question first answered 11/09/2015 11:17:54 answering member 1201 label Biography information for Alistair Burt
tabling member	3994 label Biography information for Andrew Bingham