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From 1 October 2022, NHS England is introducing changes to the dental contract. These changes are referenced in NHS England’s first stage of Dental Reform letter and affects all NHS dental teams in England. To support the dental contract changes,…

The Department of Health and Social Care recently announced that the amount members will pay towards their NHS Pension is changing.  To allow us to implement the changes to the NHS Pension Scheme contribution tiers, the following Compass functions…

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…

As highlighted in NHS England’s first stage of Dental Reform letter, data is required covering a patient’s oral health at the point of check-up. Therefore, we’ve made some changes to the clinical data set to include new items: Highest BPE sextant…

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…

The calculations to award additional UDAs will be based on the Clinical Data Set (CDS) items entered on the FP17. It is therefore important that this is fully completed. For claims with Date of Acceptance on or after Friday 25 November 2022,…

The commitment to reform the current NHS dental contract has been a well-established goal of successive governments. The Dental Contact Reform (DCR) programme worked with over 100 dental practices to test new ways of providing NHS dental services.…

The ‘first stage of dental reform’ letter, published by NHS England on 19 July 2022, sets out the package of initial reforms to the NHS dental contract which sought to address the challenges associated with delivering care to higher needs patients…