Table 1

Details of English PCTs with the highest and lowest figures of dentists per 1,000 population. For each PCT, the total number of dentists as at 31 December 2002 is shown. This includes principals, assistants and vocational trainees. Dentists who were both principals and assistants have been counted once as principals.

Primary Care Trust

Population (Census 2001)

Number of dentists (2002)

Dentists per 1,000 people

Westminster

181286

160

0.882583

Doncaster Central

69292

49

0.707152

Cambridge City

108863

71

0.652196

South West Kent

176439

109

0.617777

Camden

198020

122

0.616099

Hammersmith and Fulham

165242

101

0.611225

Royston, Buntingford and Bishop's Stortford

62249

38

0.610452

Yorkshire Wolds and Coast

143541

30

0.209000

Hinckley and Bosworth

115258

24

0.208228

Central Suffolk

98786

20

0.202458

Eastern Hull

116394

23

0.197605

South Cambridgeshire

130689

21

0.160687

Easington

93993

15

0.159586

Ellesmere Port and Neston

81672

13

0.159173

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