How many dental practices have closed in each year since 1999 and where these practices were located.

Answered Asked by Shona Robison SNP Lodged 27 Jan 2003

The question

To ask the Scottish Executive how many dental practices have closed in each year since 1999 and where these practices were located.

The answer

Answered by Mary Mulligan on 5 Feb 2003 · 9 days after it was lodged, on time

Information on the closure of dental practices is not held centrally.The total number of practices in Scotland, which ceased to provide NHS general dental services between 1999 and 2002 is shown in the following table, categorised by health board:Health Board | Total Practices Closed
- 1999 | Total Practices Closed
- 2000 | Total Practices Closed
- 2001 | Total Practices Closed
- 2002
Ayrshire and Arran | 2 | 2 | 3 | 1
Borders | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0
Argyll and Clyde | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0
Fife | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1
Greater Glasgow | 2 | 3 | 2 | 3
Highland | 4 | 2 | 2 | 3
Lanarkshire | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1
Grampian | 1 | 0 | 1 | 3
Orkney | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0
Lothian | 1 | 2 | 2 | 3
Tayside | 2 | 0 | 2 | 2
Forth Valley | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2
Western Isles | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0
Dumfries and Galloway | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0
Shetland | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0
Scotland | 13 |

In the Official Report

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