Gwasanaethau deintyddol GIG: Ebrill i Mehefin 2025
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Introduction
A full annual report analysing annual NHS dental data for April 2024 to March 2025 will not be published this year to allow more resources to be spent on transforming data processes that will lead to better quality statistics.
This report provides new data for headline measures relating to patients treated and courses of treatment provided for the quarter April to June 2025, and dental workforce statistics for the financial year 2024-25.
Patient charge (StatsWales) and orthodontic activity data (StatsWales) for the financial year 2024-25 are also published as data tables on StatsWales. All other datasets which are normally updated annually, will be updated with new data for 2024-25 as soon as practicable on StatsWales, which will likely be in early 2026.
Background
Following the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) guidance statistics on adults treated are based on the previous 24-month period, and statistics for children refer to the previous 12-month period.
Each patient is counted only once in the total patients treated statistics even if they have received multiple episodes of care during the reference period. However, all courses of treatment are counted in the activity statistics, even if the same patient had multiple treatments.
Patients may be treated outside of their resident health board and orthodontic patients are included.
Main points
The percentage of Welsh children treated by an NHS dentist continues to increase with close to half of the child population treated in the last year, while the percentage of Welsh adults treated has remained broadly stable over the last 18 months.
The number of courses of treatment provided decreased in the latest quarter, but has remained broadly stable over the previous two years, with small quarterly variations.
The number of dentists or dental care professionals who were the lead practitioner of NHS treatments was largely unchanged from the previous year. The average number of courses of treatment completed per dentist continued to increase but remains below the pre-pandemic level.
Patients treated in a 12 and 24-month period
Data refers to Welsh resident patients treated at NHS dental practices in Wales and England only. Any non-Welsh resident patients treated in Wales are not included in this measure but are included on separate StatsWales datasets showing data for all patients treated in Wales:
Patients treated in Wales in a 12-month period (StatsWales)
Patients treated in Wales in a 24-month period (StatsWales)
The percentage of the population treated in each 24-month and 12-month period are calculated using the mid-year population estimates from the Office for National Statistics (ONS). The ONS revised the estimates for mid-2022 and mid-2023 on 30 July 2025, and therefore statistics for the percentage of the population treated have been revised in this publication. This has resulted in small changes ranging between 0.1 and 0.5 percentage points.
Figure 1: percentage of Welsh resident adults and children treated in rolling 24-month and 12-month periods, 30 June 2019 to 30 June 2025 [Note 1]
Description of figure 1: line charts showing the percentage of both adults and children treated in recent quarters remains below their pre-pandemic levels. The percentage of children treated has been on a broadly upward trend over the last two years, while the percentage of adults treated has remained largely stable over the same period.
Source: FP17W form, NHS Business Services Authority; mid-year population estimates, ONS
[Note 1] Adults refers to those aged 18 years or older. Children refers to those aged 0 to 17 years.
Welsh resident children treated in a 12-month period by local health board (StatsWales)
Welsh resident adults treated in a 24-month period by local health board (StatsWales)
Just more that than 1 million adults were treated in the 24-month period that ended on 30 June 2025. This is equivalent to 40.1% of the adult population and is 0.7 percentage points lower than in the 24-month period that ended on 30 June 2024.
Just fewer than 300,000 children were treated in the 12-month period that ended on 30 June 2025. This is equivalent to 48.2% of children living in Wales and is 2.4 percentage points higher than in the 12-month period that ended on 30 June 2025.
New patients treated
Data for ‘new patients’ is published on StatsWales.
New patients are defined as: a unique count of patients at each NHS dental contractor who completed a Band 1, 2, or 3 treatment with a complete Assessment of Clinical Oral Risks and Need (ACORN) in the year, whose previous Band 1, 2, or 3 treatment at the contractor was completed more than 48 months prior to the ACORN; or who have not previously been treated by the NHS dental contractor.
For the financial year to date (1 April 2025 to 20 August 2025) just more than 54,000 new patients had routine treatments in Wales.
While new patients are unique counts for each specific dental contractor, it is estimated that around 80% of new patients in the financial year to date did not have a separate Band 1, 2 or 3 treatment at another Welsh contractor in the previous 4 years.
A further 30,000 urgent treatments have also been provided to new patients in the year to date.
Activity
Activity statistics refer to all NHS courses of treatment provided by dental practices in Wales. It includes treatments provided to patients who did not live in Wales at the time of the treatment but does not include any privately funded treatments.
Figure 2: number of courses of treatment provided per quarter, quarter ending June 2016 to quarter ending June 2025 [Note 1]
Description of figure 2: line chart showing that the number of courses of treatment provided each quarter has remained broadly stable for the last two years, with some small quarterly variations. While the number has increased since the height of the pandemic, it remains below the pre-pandemic level.
Source: FP17W form, NHS Business Services Authority
Number of courses of treatment by quarter ending March each year (StatsWales)
[Note 1] Data for April to June 2025 is provisional and will be revised at year end. Data for all quarters in the financial year 2024-25 has been routinely revised as data for the full financial year is now available.
During the quarter April to June 2025, there were just fewer than 344,000 NHS dental courses of treatment delivered to both adults and children. This is a decrease of 4.2% compared to the same period last year.
The number of courses of treatment in the quarter April to June 2025 was 41.4% lower than the number in the last equivalent quarter that was unaffected by the pandemic (April to June 2019).
Workforce
Dental workforce statistics refer to the total number of dentists or dental care professionals who were the lead practitioner of an NHS course of treatment between 1 April and 31 March each year, as recorded on FP17W forms.
Dental care professionals are staff employed in non-dentist roles that are registered with the General Dental Council, such as hygienists, dental therapists and dental nurses. Staff in these roles are only counted when they were the lead practitioner on a course of treatment. They are not counted when they assist a dentist in providing treatment.
The statistics are headcounts; full-time equivalent data is not presently available.
Figure 3: NHS dental workforce and the average number of courses of treatments they provided, 2015-16 to 2024-25 [Note 1]
Description of figure 3: the NHS dental workforce has remained largely stable since 2020-21, with only small differences from year-to-year. The average number of courses of treatment per dentist or dental care professional has increased modestly over the last two years but it remains below the pre-pandemic level.
Source: FP17W form, NHS Business Services Authority
[Note 1] Data for 2019-20 to 2023-24 have been revised by NHS Business Services Authority following the inclusion of FP17W forms which were submitted late. This has resulted in marginal increases to the Wales headcounts, by no more than two in any year.
Dentists with NHS activity (StatsWales)
Courses of treatment, by treatment band (StatsWales)
In total 1,395 dental staff led on NHS treatments in 2024-25, four fewer (or 0.3%) than in 2023-24, and 75 fewer (or 5.1%) than in 2015-16.
The large majority of staff leading on treatments were dentists (1,335), while 60 dental care professionals also led on treatments.
The average number of courses of treatment provided by each dentist or dental care practitioner in the year was 1,017. This was a 1.8% increase from the previous year, but a 36.2% decrease over the ten year period.
The number of dentists per population (ONS mid-year population estimates) has been on a downward trend over the ten year period.
In 2024-25 there were 43.8 NHS dental workforce per 100,000 population, compared to 44.2 in 2023-24 and 47.8 in 2015-16.
