NHS Dental Surgery Locations in England, 2006

8,752 dental surgeries providing NHS or mixed NHS/private care in England, georeferenced to grid reference points. The Health and Social Care Information Centre (HSCIC) published this administrative data via Neighbourhood Statistics in 2006. It records surgery locations, not the count of individual dentists.

Use Cases

• Map healthcare service accessibility based on the georeferenced surgery locations.
• Analyze the spatial distribution of NHS dental provision across England.
• Study the mix of public and private healthcare delivery based on the described service types.

Strengths

• 8,752 unique surgery locations provide a substantial point dataset.
• Geographic coverage is explicitly for all of England.
• Data is sourced from the authoritative Health and Social Care Information Centre (HSCIC).

Limitations

• Data is from 2006 and may not reflect current service locations.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.

Provenance

Source

Health and Social Care Information Centre (HSCIC)

Collection Method

Administrative data

Time Range

2006

Freshness

Last updated 2026-07-08 13:32:36.263452; freshness should be verified

Geography

England