Six in ten adults in Wales have not seen an NHS dentist in two years, and in Hywel Dda it is seven in ten
In the 24 months to 31 March 2026, 40.6% of adults living in Wales were treated by an NHS dentist, so 59.4% were not. That 59.4% includes people who see a dentist privately and people who do not go to one. Across the seven health boards the share treated by an NHS dentist runs from 27.9% in Hywel Dda to 48.9% in Cwm Taf Morgannwg, and the two boards with the lowest shares are the only two where it fell in the last year. Half of children were treated by an NHS dentist in the last year. These are the Welsh Government's last figures under the dental contract that ended on 31 March 2026, for every health board, with each of the 22 local authorities placed in its board.
Practice Radar shows a dental practice where it ranks against every practice nearby, and does the work to move up.
Thirty days free. No card, and nothing starts automatically when it ends.
Key findings
- Six in ten adults living in Wales, 59.4% or about 1.5 million people, were not treated by an NHS dentist in the 24 months to 31 March 2026. 40.6% were. The six in ten include people who see a dentist privately and people who do not go to one.
- 27.9% to 48.9% is the range in adults treated by an NHS dentist across the seven health boards, from Hywel Dda to Cwm Taf Morgannwg. The two are 21.0 percentage points apart. Before the pandemic the highest and lowest boards were 15.3 points apart.
- Half of children, 50.5%, were treated by an NHS dentist in the 12 months to 31 March 2026. Across boards it runs from 39.7% in Hywel Dda to 57.3% in Cardiff and Vale.
- 11.3 points is how far the share of adults treated by an NHS dentist in Wales is below its level before the pandemic. Every board is below its own. Hywel Dda and Betsi Cadwaladr are 15.6 and 16.5 points below, and they are the only two boards where the share fell again in the last year.
- About a fifth fewer dentists led NHS treatment in Hywel Dda and Betsi Cadwaladr in 2024-25 than in 2019-20, 22.9% and 20.4% fewer. Across Wales the number went from 1,480 to 1,335, which is 9.8% fewer, or 5.7% fewer if the 60 dental care professionals recorded for the first time in 2024-25 are counted too.
The Welsh Government's main measure of NHS dentistry is a count of the people who were treated: every adult who had an NHS course of treatment, which includes a check-up, in the last 24 months, and every child in the last 12 months, each counted once. The two periods follow the guidance of the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence on the longest gap between check-ups. The count is of people who live in Wales, whether they were treated in Wales or in England, and it is given as a share of the population of the health board they live in.
The figures are published for Wales and for its seven health boards. They are not published for the 22 local authorities. So this study does two things for local readers. It sets out every health board's figures, and it places each local authority in its health board. Where a local authority is shown with a figure here, it is the figure for its health board, and it should be quoted as that. Powys is the one place where the health board and the local authority cover the same area.
These are also the last figures under the old contract. The NHS dental contract in Wales changed on 1 April 2026, and the Welsh Government has said the new contract will likely break the series for many patient and activity measures. The periods ending 31 March 2026 are the picture at the end of the old contract. There is a search box in section 2 to find any local authority or health board, and the full table is free to download.
1. Six in ten adults in Wales have not seen an NHS dentist in two years
1,041,644 adults living in Wales were treated by an NHS dentist in the 24 months to 31 March 2026. That is 40.6% of the adult population, on the Welsh Government's figures. The other 59.4%, about 1.5 million adults, were not. Some of them will have seen a dentist privately, which these figures do not count, and some will not have seen a dentist at all. The figures do not say how many wanted an NHS appointment and could not get one.
Adults and children treated by an NHS dentist, by health board
The seven health boards are far apart. In Cwm Taf Morgannwg and Aneurin Bevan almost half of adults were treated, 48.9% and 48.8%. In Betsi Cadwaladr, which covers the six local authorities of north Wales, it was 31.9%. In Hywel Dda, which covers Carmarthenshire, Ceredigion and Pembrokeshire, it was 27.9%. So 72.1% of adults there, about seven in ten, were not treated by an NHS dentist in two years.
| Health board | Adults treated, 24 months to March 2026 | Share of adults | Not treated | To March 2025 | To March 2020 | Change since 2020, points |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cwm Taf Morgannwg | 175,083 | 48.9% | 51.1% | 47.1% | 58.8% | -9.9 |
| Aneurin Bevan | 233,931 | 48.8% | 51.2% | 48.4% | 55.7% | -6.9 |
| Cardiff and Vale | 182,161 | 43.8% | 56.2% | 42.0% | 49.8% | -6.0 |
| Swansea Bay | 137,300 | 43.2% | 56.8% | 42.5% | 55.2% | -11.9 |
| Powys | 43,754 | 39.1% | 60.9% | 38.6% | 52.5% | -13.4 |
| Betsi Cadwaladr | 180,406 | 31.9% | 68.1% | 32.8% | 48.4% | -16.5 |
| Hywel Dda | 89,005 | 27.9% | 72.1% | 29.6% | 43.5% | -15.6 |
| Wales | 1,041,644 | 40.6% | 59.4% | 40.3% | 51.9% | -11.3 |
Three checks. First, the count includes people who live in Wales and go to an NHS dentist in England. In Powys 17.0% of the adults treated were treated outside Wales, and in Betsi Cadwaladr 9.3%, and they are in these figures. So the low figure in north Wales is not people crossing the border. Second, it is not one age group. A separate Welsh Government table gives the share treated in ten age groups for each health board, counting people treated at practices in Wales. Hywel Dda is lowest in nine of the ten, and the same three boards, Hywel Dda, Betsi Cadwaladr and Powys, are the three lowest in nine of the ten. The exception is people aged 18 to 25, where Cardiff and Vale is lowest. Third, the same two boards are lowest for children as for adults.
See this for your own town.
Practice Radar does not hold NHS figures for a town, and the figures in this study stop at the health board. What it shows is the search market: every practice competing with yours on one Google map, sized by the share of local search each one holds, re-checked every week. The sample town shows the whole thing now, with no sign-up.
Run on our own practice first: ninth of the 14 practices measured in its town in May, first of 18 in September, on UK-wide search value. Page-one keywords: 6 in May, 194 in September.
Thirty days free. No card, and nothing starts automatically when it ends.
2. Every board is below its level before the pandemic, and two are still falling
In the 24 months to 31 March 2020, the last period before the pandemic, 51.9% of adults in Wales had been treated by an NHS dentist. The figure fell to 29.3% in the 24 months to March 2022, recovered to 40.8% by March 2024, and has hardly moved since: 40.3% in 2025 and 40.6% in 2026. It is 11.3 points below the 2020 level. In numbers, 239,147 fewer adults were treated than in the 24 months to March 2020.
Every health board is below its 2020 level, by between 6.0 points in Cardiff and Vale and 16.5 points in Betsi Cadwaladr. Five boards rose a little in the last year. Two fell again: Hywel Dda, from 29.6% to 27.9%, and Betsi Cadwaladr, from 32.8% to 31.9%. They were already the two lowest. So the gap between boards has widened. In 2020 the highest and lowest were 15.3 points apart, and in 2026 they are 21.0 points apart.
Adults treated by an NHS dentist, and how far each health board is below 2020
3. Half of children were treated by an NHS dentist in the last year
307,589 children living in Wales were treated by an NHS dentist in the 12 months to 31 March 2026, 50.5% of the child population. That is up from 48.8% a year earlier, and it is still 8.1 points below the 58.6% of the 12 months to March 2020.
By health board it runs from 39.7% in Hywel Dda to 57.3% in Cardiff and Vale. In three boards fewer than half of children were treated: Hywel Dda, Betsi Cadwaladr and Powys. Hywel Dda is the only board where the share fell in the last year, from 41.7% to 39.7%, and it is 17.6 points below its 2020 level, the largest fall of any board. Cwm Taf Morgannwg is the only board back at its 2020 level, at 55.2% against 55.0%.
| Health board | Children treated, 12 months to March 2026 | Share of children | To March 2025 | To March 2020 | Change since 2020, points |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cardiff and Vale | 57,853 | 57.3% | 55.7% | 60.8% | -3.5 |
| Cwm Taf Morgannwg | 48,793 | 55.2% | 50.6% | 55.0% | +0.3 |
| Aneurin Bevan | 66,833 | 54.6% | 54.5% | 62.0% | -7.4 |
| Swansea Bay | 39,754 | 53.8% | 49.9% | 63.9% | -10.1 |
| Powys | 11,299 | 49.1% | 46.9% | 56.3% | -7.2 |
| Betsi Cadwaladr | 55,379 | 42.4% | 40.6% | 54.6% | -12.2 |
| Hywel Dda | 27,674 | 39.7% | 41.7% | 57.3% | -17.6 |
| Wales | 307,589 | 50.5% | 48.8% | 58.6% | -8.1 |
The youngest children are seen least. On the table by age group, 44.1% of children under six in Wales were treated in the year, against 58.3% of those aged 6 to 11. For children under six the boards run from 29.3% in Hywel Dda to 53.6% in Cwm Taf Morgannwg. That table counts children treated at practices in Wales. It leaves out Welsh children treated in England and includes a few who live outside Wales, so it is close to the figures above but not the same measure.
4. The two boards where fewest adults are treated have had the largest falls in NHS dentists
The Welsh Government counts the people who led at least one NHS course of treatment in a year. It is a head count, so it says nothing about hours. In 2019-20 there were 1,480 in Wales, all of them recorded as dentists. In 2024-25, the latest year published, there were 1,395: 1,335 dentists and 60 dental care professionals, such as dental therapists and hygienists.
The 60 are a change in recording, so the two years are not quite like for like. Before 2024-25, treatment led by a dental care professional was recorded under a dentist's number. From 2024-25 it is recorded under their own. Counting dentists only, the number in Wales is 9.8% lower than in 2019-20. Counting everyone, it is 5.7% lower. A like-for-like figure is likely to lie between the two. The Welsh Government describes the workforce as largely stable since 2020-21, and the total has stayed between 1,395 and 1,436 in every year since then.
Change in the number of people leading NHS dental treatment, 2019-20 to 2024-25
The change is uneven, and two boards stand out on either count. Hywel Dda went from 175 dentists doing NHS work to 135, which is 22.9% fewer, or 20.6% fewer counting its dental care professionals. Betsi Cadwaladr went from 313 to 249, which is 20.4% fewer, or 19.8% fewer. In Swansea Bay the way of counting matters more. It went from 282 dentists to 229, which is 18.8% fewer, and with its 22 dental care professionals the fall is 11.0%. Cardiff and Vale went from 302 dentists to 293, and counting everyone it rose to 307.
Set against population, Hywel Dda has 34.7 dentists doing NHS work for every 100,000 people and Betsi Cadwaladr has 35.8. Swansea Bay has 58.2 and Cardiff and Vale has 56.6. These rates are our own calculation, not Welsh Government figures, and they carry two cautions. A dentist who works in two boards is counted in both, so the board rates run higher than the 42.0 for Wales as a whole. And a head count does not show how much NHS work each dentist does.
Across the seven boards, the change in dentists and the change in the share of adults treated since 2020 line up: a board with a larger fall in one tends to have a larger fall in the other (rank correlation 0.93 counting dentists only and 0.96 counting everyone, where 1 is a perfect match). With seven boards that is a pattern and not proof, and it does not show that one caused the other. Other things changed over the same years. The pandemic interrupted routine dental care from March 2020. The population estimates behind the shares were revised for recent periods and not for 2020. The way dental care professionals are recorded changed. So this study says only that the two moved together.
The number of practices points the same way, from 2022-23, the first year in the Welsh Government's table. Wales went from 432 practices recording NHS work to 393 in 2025-26. Hywel Dda went from 53 to 40, Powys from 29 to 21 and Betsi Cadwaladr from 88 to 75. The Welsh Government notes that this table can miss a practice whose claim forms carry an out-of-date location code, so small changes should not be over-read.
New patients show a similar pattern. In 2025-26, 150,776 new patients had routine NHS treatment in Wales, which we work out as 47.5 for every 1,000 people. A new patient here is new to that dental contractor: someone it had not treated in the previous four years, or ever. The Welsh Government estimates that about 80% of them had not been treated by another Welsh contractor in those four years either. In Hywel Dda it was 26.6 for every 1,000 people, and in Cwm Taf Morgannwg it was 63.6.
| Health board | Dentists, 2019-20 | Dentists, 2024-25 | Change, dentists only | Dental care professionals, 2024-25 | Change counting them too | Dentists per 100,000 people, 2024-25, our calculation | Practices, 2022-23 | Practices, 2025-26 | New patients per 1,000 people, 2025-26, our calculation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hywel Dda | 175 | 135 | -22.9% | 4 | -20.6% | 34.7 | 53 | 40 | 26.6 |
| Betsi Cadwaladr | 313 | 249 | -20.4% | 2 | -19.8% | 35.8 | 88 | 75 | 40.7 |
| Swansea Bay | 282 | 229 | -18.8% | 22 | -11.0% | 58.2 | 63 | 58 | 44.1 |
| Powys | 74 | 63 | -14.9% | 1 | -13.5% | 46.7 | 29 | 21 | 38.9 |
| Cwm Taf Morgannwg | 269 | 246 | -8.6% | 8 | -5.6% | 55.0 | 56 | 57 | 63.6 |
| Aneurin Bevan | 321 | 300 | -6.5% | 13 | -2.5% | 50.0 | 77 | 75 | 53.3 |
| Cardiff and Vale | 302 | 293 | -3.0% | 14 | +1.7% | 56.6 | 68 | 69 | 56.5 |
| Wales | 1,480 | 1,335 | -9.8% | 60 | -5.7% | 42.0 | 432 | 393 | 47.5 |
5. Deprivation runs differently for adults and for children
The Welsh Government also splits Welsh residents treated in Wales by how deprived their home area is, in five equal groups, using the Welsh Index of Multiple Deprivation. For adults there is no simple slope. The share treated in the 24 months to March 2026 was highest in the most deprived fifth, at 43.8%, next highest in the least deprived fifth, at 42.1%, and lowest in the middle fifth, at 36.0%.
For children the least deprived fifth stands apart. 56.1% of children there were treated in the 12 months to March 2026, against 48.9% in the most deprived fifth, and the other three fifths are within a point or so of the most deprived. That gap of 7.2 points was 12.3 points in the 12 months to March 2023. The index and the population figures behind the table both changed in between, so treat the narrowing as a guide.
6. Every local authority and its health board
The table below places each of the 22 local authorities in its health board, with the board's figures. They are the board's figures, not the local authority's own.
| Local authority | Health board | Adults treated in 24 months, health board figure | Children treated in 12 months, health board figure |
|---|---|---|---|
| Blaenau Gwent | Aneurin Bevan | 48.8% | 54.6% |
| Bridgend | Cwm Taf Morgannwg | 48.9% | 55.2% |
| Caerphilly | Aneurin Bevan | 48.8% | 54.6% |
| Cardiff | Cardiff and Vale | 43.8% | 57.3% |
| Carmarthenshire | Hywel Dda | 27.9% | 39.7% |
| Ceredigion | Hywel Dda | 27.9% | 39.7% |
| Conwy | Betsi Cadwaladr | 31.9% | 42.4% |
| Denbighshire | Betsi Cadwaladr | 31.9% | 42.4% |
| Flintshire | Betsi Cadwaladr | 31.9% | 42.4% |
| Gwynedd | Betsi Cadwaladr | 31.9% | 42.4% |
| Isle of Anglesey | Betsi Cadwaladr | 31.9% | 42.4% |
| Merthyr Tydfil | Cwm Taf Morgannwg | 48.9% | 55.2% |
| Monmouthshire | Aneurin Bevan | 48.8% | 54.6% |
| Neath Port Talbot | Swansea Bay | 43.2% | 53.8% |
| Newport | Aneurin Bevan | 48.8% | 54.6% |
| Pembrokeshire | Hywel Dda | 27.9% | 39.7% |
| Powys | Powys | 39.1% | 49.1% |
| Rhondda Cynon Taf | Cwm Taf Morgannwg | 48.9% | 55.2% |
| Swansea | Swansea Bay | 43.2% | 53.8% |
| Torfaen | Aneurin Bevan | 48.8% | 54.6% |
| Vale of Glamorgan | Cardiff and Vale | 43.8% | 57.3% |
| Wrexham | Betsi Cadwaladr | 31.9% | 42.4% |
What to do about it
If you report on or represent an area, find it in the chart in section 2, in the table in section 6 or in the area file. The figures belong to the health board, so quote them as the board's. Health boards hold the NHS dental contracts in their area, so they are the place to ask how many dentists are doing NHS work there now, and what the contract that began on 1 April 2026 is expected to change for people who have not seen an NHS dentist in two years.
If your practice does NHS work in Wales, keep your own baseline. The contract changed on 1 April 2026 and the Welsh Government expects its published series to break. Your own numbers need not. Record how many of your adult patients were treated in the 24 months to March 2026 and how many children in the 12 months, and set them against your health board's figures here. When the first figures under the new contract are published you will have a like-for-like comparison that nobody else can give you.
Say plainly whether you are taking new NHS patients, adults and children separately, on your website and on your Google listing. In Hywel Dda and Betsi Cadwaladr about seven adults in ten have not seen an NHS dentist in two years, and under-sixes are the children seen least in every board. Someone looking for a dentist often starts with a search, and what they need first is a clear answer.
If you are private, or thinking about your mix, read these figures with care. About 1.5 million adults in Wales have not been treated on the NHS in two years. Some already pay privately, some do not go to a dentist, and some will be looking for a practice. The figures do not say how many are in each group. Check what the ones who are looking see when they search for a dentist in your town: whether your practice appears, and whether your listing says what you offer.
How we did this
Patients treated. Welsh Government, NHS dental services, published on StatsWales on 27 August 2026 with the release for April 2025 to March 2026: the tables of Welsh resident adults treated at NHS dental practices in a 24-month period and Welsh resident children treated in a 12-month period, by local health board. They are built from the claim forms dentists submit to the NHS Business Services Authority. Each patient is counted once in a period, by the health board they live in, and Welsh residents treated in England are included. The share is the count over the ONS mid-year population estimate. We recomputed every 2026 share from the published counts and ONS mid-2025 estimates by local authority, added up to health boards, and they match the published figures. The share not treated is 100 minus the share treated. Changes are worked out from the unrounded shares, so a change can differ by 0.1 from the gap between two rounded figures. The Welsh Government says that in the periods to March 2026, 1.4% of the adults and of the children treated in Wales had missing or invalid details of where they live, so they are not counted as Welsh residents. If every one of them lived in Wales, the share of adults treated would be 0.6 of a point higher and the share not treated would be 58.8%, which is still six in ten.
Health boards and local authorities. Codes and names, in English and Welsh, are from the ONS Unitary Authority to Local Health Board (December 2025) lookup. For Torfaen the ONS gives Tor-faen in Welsh and the council itself writes Torfaen, and the search box finds both. A local authority's shares treated are its health board's. Its population in the file is its own, from ONS mid-2025 estimates.
What can and cannot be compared. The Welsh Government's own comparison for the level before the pandemic is the period ending 31 March 2020, and we use it. The earliest period in the resident-based tables ends 31 March 2019. Bridgend moved from one health board to another on 1 April 2019, and these tables count Bridgend residents in Cwm Taf Morgannwg throughout, so the boards are comparable across that change. In August 2026 the shares were revised to use new ONS population estimates, for adults from the period ending June 2023 and for children from the period ending June 2022, both up to December 2025. The figures here are the revised ones. The shares for 2019 and 2020 were not part of that revision. The release of 27 August 2026 is described by the Welsh Government as the final edition under the contract that ran to 31 March 2026. It says the new contract changes how patients are recalled and how treatment is categorised and will likely break the series for many activity and patient measures. So figures for periods ending after March 2026 should not be set against these without checking what the Welsh Government says about them.
Dentists. StatsWales, NHS dental workforce by local health board, published 20 November 2025, latest year 2024-25. It is a head count of people who were the lead practitioner on an NHS course of treatment in the year, not a count of full-time posts. For 2024-25 the table has a row for dental care professionals for the first time: 60 in Wales. The Welsh Government's release for July to September 2025 says that before then their work was recorded under a dentist's number. So we give two changes since 2019-20. Dentists only is the sum of the dentist types, which gives the 1,335 the Welsh Government also quotes. It may overstate the fall, because a dentist who was counted in 2019-20 only for work a dental care professional did under their number is no longer counted. Everyone is the table's own total, 1,395. It may understate the fall, because the same work is now counted as extra people. In every year before 2024-25 the dentist types add up to the table's total. A dentist is counted in each board they worked in, so the seven boards add up to 1,515 dentists against 1,335 for Wales. Board figures start in 2019-20, the first year on the current boundaries. Dentists per 100,000 people is our own calculation on ONS mid-2024 population estimates. The Welsh Government's own rate for Wales, 43.8 for every 100,000 people, counts dental care professionals too. Workforce figures for 2025-26 had not been published when the August 2026 release came out.
Practices and new patients. StatsWales, Dental contracts and practices by local health board, 2022-23 to 2025-26, which counts a practice if at least one claim form was submitted from it in the year. StatsWales, New NHS dental patients treated, 2025-26 only, because the way new patients were counted was adjusted in 2023-24. A new patient is counted by each dental contractor, so one person can be new to two contractors. New patients for every 1,000 people is our own calculation on ONS mid-2025 population estimates.
Age and deprivation. StatsWales tables by age group and by Welsh Index of Multiple Deprivation fifth. Both count patients treated at practices in Wales, so they leave out Welsh residents treated in England. The deprivation table uses the 2025 index for the latest two periods and the 2019 index before that.
Controls we ran. The Welsh figure in each of the last three years: 59.2%, 59.7% and 59.4% of adults not treated, so it is not one odd year. The order of boards in 2020 and in 2026 is almost the same (rank correlation 0.89, where 1 is identical), with Hywel Dda lowest and Cwm Taf Morgannwg highest in both. Boards that are low for adults are low for children (rank correlation 0.89). The low boards are low at nearly every age, as section 1 sets out. Welsh residents treated in England are counted, and are 2.9% of all adults treated. These are counts of every patient, not a sample, and the smallest board has 43,754 adults treated. We did not test rurality or deprivation board by board, because the source does not publish what would be needed. Powys, the most sparsely populated board, is close to the Welsh figure, at 39.1%.
What this is not. It is not a measure of private dentistry, which these sources do not count. It is not a count of people who tried to get an NHS appointment and could not. It is not a figure for any local authority on its own. And it is not a comparison with England or Scotland. England's count is published by a different body, the NHS Business Services Authority, under a different contract and with its own counting rules, and Scotland counts registered patients, so a figure for Wales should not be set beside one for England or Scotland.
Questions we get asked about this data
Does this mean six in ten adults cannot get an NHS dentist?
No. It means 59.4% of adults living in Wales were not treated by an NHS dentist in the 24 months to 31 March 2026. That includes people who see a dentist privately and people who do not go to a dentist. The figures do not count how many people tried to get an NHS appointment and could not.
Is there a figure for my local authority?
Not one of its own. The Welsh Government publishes patients treated for the seven health boards and for Wales. This study places each of the 22 local authorities in its health board and gives the board's figure, labelled as the board's. Powys is the exception, because the health board and the local authority are the same area.
Does it count people who go to a dentist in England?
Yes. The count is of people who live in Wales and were treated at an NHS dental practice in Wales or England. In the 24 months to 31 March 2026, 30,187 adults living in Wales were treated in England, most of them from Betsi Cadwaladr and Powys.
Why do the dentist figures stop at 2024-25?
That is the latest year the Welsh Government has published. Its August 2026 release said workforce figures for 2025-26 were not yet available and would be published with its next quarterly release.
Will next year's figures be comparable?
Probably not for many measures. A new NHS dental contract began in Wales on 1 April 2026, and the Welsh Government has said it will likely result in a break in the series. The periods ending 31 March 2026 are the last full picture under the old contract.
For editors
The data is free to reuse with attribution to Practice Radar, under Creative Commons BY 4.0. Sources: Welsh Government, NHS dental services: April 2025 to March 2026, and its tables on StatsWales, and ONS population estimates and area lookups. The area file, wales-nhs-dentistry-by-health-board-2026.csv, has one row for Wales, one for each health board and one for each local authority, with ONS codes and Welsh names. In the file, every column that a local authority row fills with a share treated is named as the health board's, because that is what it is. The 27 August 2026 release was still the Welsh Government's latest on 12 November 2026. It says its next release will be about activity under the new contract. StatsWales gives November 2026 as the expected month for the next update of the patients treated tables, and no date had been announced on 12 November.
Jack Henty, who compiled this analysis, co-owns Bollington Dental Practice in Cheshire and founded Practice Radar, which measures local dental markets for practices. He is available for interview.
Contact: hello@practiceradar.co.uk
Cite and reuse
To cite this study. Practice Radar, “Six in ten adults in Wales have not seen an NHS dentist in two years, and in Hywel Dda it is seven in ten”, 12 November 2026, https://practiceradar.co.uk/blog/wales-nhs-dentistry-by-health-board-2026
The data. NHS dentistry in Wales by health board and local authority (CSV, 30 rows), with a README that explains each column.
Licence. The data is free to reuse under Creative Commons BY 4.0. Attribution means crediting Practice Radar and linking to this study. It is built from public sector information, so please also keep these lines: “Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: Welsh Government, StatsWales. Source: Office for National Statistics licensed under the Open Government Licence v.3.0.”
See your own town on Google
Practice Radar shows a dental practice how it appears when people nearby search for a dentist, on Google Maps, in ordinary search results and in AI answers, and which practices appear above it.
Run on our own practice first: ninth of the 14 practices measured in its town in May, first of 18 in September, on UK-wide search value. Page-one keywords: 6 in May, 194 in September.
Thirty days free. No card, and nothing starts automatically when it ends.