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TABLE B10

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Community Health and Prevention: Community Dental Service activity
England

	1995-96	1996-97	1997-98	1998-99	1999-00	2000-01	2001-02
Community Dental Staff (whole-time equivalent) (1)
Total	1,037	1,054	1,060	1,033	1,014	997	1,018
Dental Officers : Administrative	110	103	97	91	95	94	80
Clinical	927	951	964	942	919	902	938
All Patient Contacts (thousands)
Screening programmes : Patient contacts(2)(3)	3,114	2,997	3,050	2,570	2,396	1,986	1,765
of which referred for treatment	724	638	608	520	472	403	389
Patient Care (thousands)
Patient contacts in year (5)(6)	1,153	1,132	1,096	967	869	747	609
Children under 4 years	132	123	114	99	87	74	59
Children 5 to 15 years	837	814	777	673	589	493	392
Adults 16 to 64 years	140	148	158	150	149	140	120
Adults 65 & over	44	46	48	44	44	40	37

	Contact:William Burns 020 7972 5388 (email: William.Burns@doh.gsi.gov.uk)
See General Notes Section

See Chart

• The total number of patient contacts in screening programmes has fallen from 3.1 million in 1995-96 to 1.8 million in 2001-02. Some screening is now done in the Personal Dental Service (PDS).  
• The number of initial patient contacts for dental treatment was 0.6 million in 2001-02, a decrease of about 0.5 million on 1995-96. Since October 1998, some patient care has been transferred from the CDS to the PDS.  
• The number of dental staff fell from 1,037 wte in 1995-96 to 1,018 wte in 2001-02. This has been affected by the introduction of the PDS in October 1998.  

TABLE B10

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