Chamber and committees

The first meeting of the cross-departmentalworking group on occupational segregation was scheduled for May 2006 but has beenre-scheduled to August 2006 to enable the fullest attendance from senior officials.Terms of reference have been drafted but these have yet to be ratified. This willbe done by the working group at its first meeting.

The cross-departmental workinggroup on occupational segregation is due to hold its first meeting towards the endof August. The life span of the working group will be no more than 18 months. Itis envisaged that any final outputs from the deliberations of the group will bepublished as soon as possible after the conclusion of the group’s deliberations.

The information provided inthe table below shows NHS general dental service patients in NHS Tayside whoseregistration status indicates withdrawn. This records only one instance of massde-registration in Tayside in 2005-06.

Number ofgeneral dental service patients in NHS Tayside whose registration status showswithdrawn¹; April 2005 to March 2006

Month	Number of Patients
April 2005	24
May 2005	13
June 2005	9
July 2005	25
August 2005	18
September 2005	19
October 2005	14
November 2005	12
December 2005	6
January 2006	12
February 2006 2	2,993
March 2006	6
Total	3,151

Source:MIDAS (Management and Dental Accounting System).

Dateextracted 13 July 2006.

Notes:

1. Based onpatients whose registration status indicates “withdrawn” between the dates inquestion. This occurs when there is a request for the registration record to bewithdrawn (made usually by the dentist, and subsequently approved by the NHSboard). The numbers also include withdrawals carried out where more than oneactive registration exists for the same patient, as part of data cleansing.Some patients whose registration has been withdrawn may register with anotherNHS dentist elsewhere. There may also be retrospective additions to these data.

2. 2,962patients whose status was withdrawn during February were deregistered by onesingle-handed practice.

The information requestedcan be found on the Scottish Health Statistics website via this link: http://www.isdscotland.org/isd/files/D1_by_NHS_board_sep05.xls.

The number of dentists wholeft NHS Tayside^1,2,3 in each of the last three years, broken downby age group, is as follows:

Age Group	Year
	2003	2004	2005
Under 30	19	21	18
30 – 39	9	7	5
40 – 49	5	1	1
50 – 59	4	4	5
60 and over	6	3	6
Total	43	36	35

Source:

Management Information &Dental Accounting System (MIDAS).

Notes:

1. NHS dentists (general,community or hospital) who were registered to provide NHS treatment in Taysideat 30 September in one year, who were not registered to provide NHS treatmentin Tayside at 30 September of the following year.

2. NHS dentists may ceaseproviding NHS services on a temporary basis.

3. Some NHS dentists mayhave left NHS Tayside but still provide NHS services elsewhere in Scotland.

The information is providedin the following tables:

Number ofgeneral dental practitioners who left NHS Tayside^1,2; 2003 to 2005

Year	2003	2004	2005
No. of dentists	30	22	27

 

Number ofgeneral dental practitioners who joined NHS Tayside³; 2003 to 2005

Year	2003	2004	2005
No. of dentists	26	29	32

Sources:

MIDAS(Management Information & Dental Accounting System).

MEDMAN(Medical and Dental Manpower Census).

Data extracted 12 July 2006.

Notes:

1. Generaldental practitioners (salaried & non-salaried) who had an open list numberin NHS Tayside at 30 September one year, and who had no open list number in NHSTayside at
30 September of the following year.

2. Generaldental practitioners may cease providing GDS on a temporary basis, or may moveinto a different sector (i.e. community or hospital).

3. Generaldental practitioners (salaried & non-salaried) who had an open list numberin NHS Tayside at 30 September one year, and who had no open list numbers inNHS Tayside at 30 September of the previous year.

Some general dentalpractitioners may have stopped providing GDS in NHS Tayside’s area but stillprovide GDS elsewhere in Scotland or conversely may have been providing GDS elsewherein Scotland before they joined NHS Tayside’s dental list.

The number of NHS dentistsin NHS Tayside, categorised as working in general dental services, hospitaldental services, community dental services and more than one sector, for eachof the last three years is as follows:

Sector	20031	20041	20051,2
General Dental Services	178	185	208
Hospital Dental Services	68	66	66
Community Dental Services	24	25	27
More than one sector	13	12	28
All Dental Services3	257	264	273

Sources:

Management Information&Dental Accounting System (MIDAS).

Medical and Dental ManpowerCensus (MEDMAN).

Notes:

1. At 30 September.

2. Due to improvements inthe collection of information on salaried dentists working in NHS GeneralDental Services (GDS), figures for 2005 include some GDS salaried dentists notpreviously recorded.

3. Total across all sectorstakes into account those who work in more than one sector. Dentists who work inmore than one sector have been subtracted from the total twice.

 

The number of dentists wholeft NHS Tayside^1,2,3 in each of the last three years is as follows:

Year	2003	2004	2005
Number of Dentists	43	36	35

 

The number of dentists whojoined NHS Tayside^4,5 in each of the last three years is as follows:

Year	2003	2004	2005
Number of Dentists	39	43	43

Sources:

Management Information &Dental Accounting System (MIDAS).

Medical and Dental ManpowerCensus (MEDMAN).

Notes:

1. NHS Dentists (general,community or hospital) who were registered to provide NHS treatment in Taysideat 30 September in one year, who were not registered to provide NHS treatmentin Tayside at 30 September of the following year.

2. Some NHS dentists mayhave left NHS Tayside but still provide NHS services elsewhere in Scotland.

3. NHS dentists may ceaseproviding NHS services on a temporary basis.

4. NHS dentists who wereregistered to provide NHS treatment in Tayside at 30 September in one year, whowere not registered to provide NHS treatment in Tayside at 30 September of theprevious year.

5. Some NHS dentists mayhave been providing NHS services elsewhere in Scotland before they joined NHSTayside.

 

In the last four years(2005, 2004, 2003, 2002) there have been two confirmed cases of measles inTayside. These were both in 2003 and comprised a family cluster of two adults. Theinitial case was imported from abroad and infection spread to one furtherfamily member. The cases were reported in the Scottish Centre for Infection andEnvironmental Health (SCIEH) Weekly Report Vaccine-preventable and childhooddisease report of 10 June 2003.

The report is availableonline at:

www.show.scot.nhs.uk/scieh/PDF/pdf2003/0323.pdf.

The information requested ispublished on the Scottish Health Statistics website at:http://www.isdscotland.org/isd/files/child_imms_Tqtr106.xls.