Patients with dental problems at A&E departments

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Hello,

Please can I request the following information under the Freedom of Information Act:

1) In the financial year 2018-19, how many patients presented at your A&E departments (to include major A&E departments, minor injuries units and walk-in centres) with dental health problems?
Of these:
a) Of the patients presenting with dental health problems, how many received treatment at the hospital during that visit?
b) Of the patients presenting with dental health problems, can the numbers please be broken down by type of problem e.g. toothache, loss of teeth, bleeding from the mouth.
c) Of the patients presenting with dental health problems, can the numbers please be broken down by age of the patient e.g. 0-9, 10-19, 20-29, 30-39, 40-49, 50-59, 60-69, 70-79, 80-89, 90+
d) Of the patients presenting with dental health problems, how many were not registered with an NHS dentist?

2) Can we please get the figures above, but for the following financial years (separately):
2014-15
2015-16
2016-17
2017-18
2019-20 to Jan 1st 2020.

If the above request cannot be accommodated within cost limits, please can you provide me with advice and assistance on how I may refine my request.

Kind regards,

Claire Wilde

FOI, Request (CENTRAL LONDON COMMUNITY HEALTHCARE NHS TRUST), Central London Community Healthcare NHS Trust

Dear Claire,

Thank you for your email dated 06.01.2020.

Your FOI request is being dealt with under the Freedom of Information Act 2000, we will endeavour to disclose the requested information within twenty working days.

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Information Management & Technology (IM&T)

Central London Community Health Services
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FOI, Request (CENTRAL LONDON COMMUNITY HEALTHCARE NHS TRUST), Central London Community Healthcare NHS Trust

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Dear Ms Wilde

I refer to your request. Please find attached our response in a detailed spreadsheet.

The first tab shows the figures for diagnosis descriptions like dental/tooth. This only provides figures for the current and last year however, because the read codes were changed.

Prior to the change we still have data but none of the diagnosis descriptions appear to contain the words dental or tooth.(The third tab in the attached shows the full list). The closest diagnosis we could see was ‘Facio-maxillary’

The second tab in the attached then shows the figures for Diagnosis description like Tooth, Dental and Facio-Maxillary.

This completes our response to your request for information. If you are unhappy with our response, please write to us giving your reasons and we will address them. If you remain dissatisfied you are entitled to appeal to the Information Commissioner:

Customer Contact
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Tel: 0303 123 1113
http://ico.org.uk

Best wishes

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