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Location of dental surgeries
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Issue
Overview
Title
Location of dental surgeries
Description
Grid Referenced locations of all 8,752 dental surgeries that provide NHS services to patients or offer a mixture of NHS and private care in England and the point location of those which could be accurately georeferenced.
Source
Health and Social Care Information Centre (HSCIC)
Where to find the data
Publisher
Neighbourhood Statistics
URL
http://www.neighbourhood.statistics.gov.uk/
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(Access To Services / Other Statistics)
Coverage
Geographic coverage
England
Geographic units
Grid Reference
Time coverage (most recent)
2006
Time coverage
2006
Update frequency
Annually
Data quality
Type of data
Administrative data
Reliability
99.4% of the data have been successfully geo-referenced. 55 (0.6%) dental surgeries were not geo-referenced, and therefore will not appear as points in this dataset.
Additional information and context
Background information
It is important to note that the data provide information about the location of dental surgeries at unique locations, and not a count of dentists operating in England.
Notes on using
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