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Dental practices must confirm all of their NHS website profile information every quarter, due to the legal regulations passed in November 2022 by the Department of Health and Social Care.  You need to confirm your profile information for quarter…

If your practice has been awarded additional funds following NHS England and NHS Improvement's £50m funding announcement, it is essential that you select the Flexible Commissioning indicator ‘Securing Access for Urgent Care’ when submitting FP17s …

We recommend that your dental practice uses an operating system and web browser that are in support and that you continue to keep both up to date. This reduces the risk of security vulnerabilities. If you are using software that is out of support,…

As outlined in NHS England’s first stage of Dental Reform letter, dental therapists and others operating within their scope of practice and competence can open courses of treatment. To support you with this, the FP17 has fields to record your…

The Dental Exemption Checking Service has identified a number of patients aged 60 and over who are incorrectly claiming free NHS dental treatment. This is due to confusion around benefits entitlement, specifically Pension Credit. This currently only…

The Welsh Government has acknowledged the current contractual system needs reform. Units of Dental Activity (UDA) as a sole measure of contract performance, focusing on treatment activity only, does not encourage needs-led care, prevention, or make…

This is an announcement on behalf of the Department of Health and Social Care. The Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) would like to invite you to take part in user research for a new platform that will replace the current PPE Portal. DHSC…

The introduction of the Dental Access Portal (DAP) and conditions within the Variation offer for 2025–2026 have resulted in some further changes which need to be modified on Compass to ensure reporting needs support the variation offer. NHS Dental…

We will shortly be delivering dental teams with their year-end reconciliation for 2021/22 in line with the contract management arrangements detailed in NHS England and NHS Improvement's letter titled Key steps in 2022 to deliver for patients in NHS…

On FP17Os, ‘Orthodontic assessment and de-bond – Overseas patient' is being introduced as a new item. This item must only be used if the: date of assessment is 1 October 2022 or later IOTN score is present or IOTN not applicable is selected…