Internal Reference Number: FOI_8711
Date Request Received: 13/06/2025 00:00:00
Date Request Replied To: 25/06/2025 00:00:00
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Request Summary: A&E Attendances for Dental Issues (Acute Trusts)
Request Category: Campaigning organisation
Question Number 1: Under the Freedom of Information Act 2000, I am writing to request information regarding A&E attendances for dental-related conditions at your hospital. Please could you provide the following information for your Trust, broken down by quarter from January 2021 to the most recent data available: • The number of A&E attendances where the primary reason was a dental-related condition (e.g., toothache, abscess, or oral infections). • Where available, a breakdown of the patient’s area of residence by lower super output area (LSOA), postcode district (e.g., SN10), or nearest town, in order to understand how many patients were travelling from. • If this data is available by diagnosis code or triage category, please include those identifiers where possible. | |
Answer To Question 1: Please see our response to this FOI in the Excel spreadsheet attached. To accompany this answer to question 1 please also see the documents listed below: ![]() | |
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