By local health board, how many full time equivalent dentists are currently employed in Wales and how many were employed at the end of each of the previous four financial years?
The number of dentists are shown in the following tables:
General Dentist Practitioners in Wales, between 1 April and 31 March (a) by year and LHB (Headcount)*
Organisation |
Census medical group |
2013 |
2014 |
2015 |
2016 |
2017 |
2018 |
Abertawe Bro Morgannwg |
General Dental |
282 |
297 |
301 |
309 |
327 |
329 |
Aneurin Bevan |
General Dental |
269 |
285 |
292 |
304 |
309 |
306 |
Betsi Cadwaladr |
General Dental |
312 |
313 |
315 |
320 |
323 |
313 |
Cardiff & Vale |
General Dental |
303 |
303 |
307 |
320 |
317 |
329 |
Cwm Taf |
General Dental |
201 |
215 |
213 |
225 |
220 |
234 |
Hywel Dda |
General Dental |
155 |
172 |
166 |
172 |
171 |
167 |
Powys |
General Dental |
74 |
91 |
83 |
75 |
79 |
79 |
TOTAL |
General Dental |
1392 |
1438 |
1439 |
1470 |
1475 |
1479 |
(a) Performers with NHS activity recorded via FP17W forms. Source: NHS Dental Services
*Workforce data on General Dental Practitioners is based on units of dental activity and therefore is only available as headcount.
Community / public health / hospital dental staff, FTE, by LHB and trust (at 30 September)*
Organisation |
Census medical group |
2013 |
2014 |
2015 |
2016 |
2017 |
Abertawe Bro Morgannwg |
Community / public health / hospital dental |
55.5 |
58.6 |
57.8 |
57.1 |
55.3 |
Aneurin Bevan |
Community / public health / hospital dental |
32.1 |
35.2 |
31.6 |
31.2 |
31.8 |
Betsi Cadwaladr |
Community / public health / hospital dental |
53.3 |
60.3 |
65.5 |
67.8 |
69.9 |
Cardiff & Vale |
Community / public health / hospital dental |
99.9 |
96.0 |
97.2 |
101.9 |
94.0 |
Cwm Taf |
Community / public health / hospital dental |
23.5 |
23.4 |
24.1 |
25.2 |
29.5 |
Hywel Dda |
Community / public health / hospital dental |
12.5 |
10.4 |
11.5 |
9.1 |
7.8 |
Powys |
Community / public health / hospital dental |
7.0 |
7.0 |
6.9 |
9.0 |
11.3 |
Public Health Wales |
Community / public health / hospital dental |
7.2 |
6.4 |
5.8 |
5.2 |
5.2 |
TOTAL |
Community / public health / hospital dental |
291.1 |
297.4 |
300.3 |
306.3 |
304.6 |
Source: WEDS / HEIW - WEDS Data - Occ codes 970/971/980 (all community / public health / hospital dental)
*The NHS staffing data differs to that published on StatsWales as we have included NHS Occupation codes 970 (Community dentist) and 971 (General Dental Practitioner) and 980 (Dental Public Health). We have always excluded code 971 and more recently code 970 has been retired in the NHS occupation manual with health boards advised to assign those staff to the most suitable code.
It is not possible to sum the numbers in both tables as there may be some overlap between the two tables and the time period differ.