All questions are shown as received by the Trust.
1) In the two most recent financial years, please say how many patients presented at your A&E departments (including 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 (that is: e.g. toothache, loss of teeth, bleeding from the mouth, etc.;
c) Of the patients presenting with dental health problems, can the numbers please be broken down by age of the patient. That is: under 18 (child for the purposes of NHS dentistry), adult (18 and over); and
d) Of the patients presenting with dental health problems, how many were not registered with an NHS dentist?
2) I note that there was a similar Freedom of Information request made in 2020, to which the Trust responded: “The system used in our A&E departments does not have the detailed coding needed to answer this request. The code used in the department is facio-maxilliary which includes dental, broken jaws, broken noses sinusitis etc.” Has the Trust considered or discussed disaggregating these types of injury/ condition?
