FOI-02887

Thank you for your request for information about the following:

##Request

<p><i>I recently contacted the Department of Health and Social Care with the freedom of information request outlined below. Their reply is attached. They state that you may hold the information. Therefore:

As a Freedom of Information (FOI) request, please can you provide me the following:

1.	Contact details for all GP practices in the UK, including name, address, telephone number and email contact.

2.	Contact details for all Dental practices in the UK, including name, address, telephone number and email contact.

3.	Contact details for all Pharmacies in the UK,  including name, address, telephone number and email contact.

4.	Contact details for all Opticians in the UK, including name, address, telephone number and email contact.

5.	Contact details for all Ambulance stations in the UK, including name, address, telephone number and email contact.</i></p>

The NHS Business Services Authority (NHSBSA) received your request on 31 May 2025

We have handled your request under the Freedom of Information Act 2000 (FOIA)

##Our response

##1.	Contact details for all GP practices in the UK, including name, address, telephone number and email contact.

Under Section 21 of the FOIA we are not required to provide information in response to a request if it is already reasonably accessible to you.  

The names, addresses and postcodes of GP practices is publicly available via the NHS Digital ODS data here GP and GP practice related data - NHS England Digital

I can confirm that some, not all GP email addresses, are held by the NHSBSA; however, please be aware that I have decided not to release full details of all dental email addresses as this information falls under the exemption in Section 40 subsections 2 and 3(A)(a) of the Freedom of Information Act.

This is because it would breach the first data protection principle as:

a) It is not fair to disclose these people’s personal details to the world and is likely to cause damage or distress.

b) These details are not of sufficient interest to the public to warrant an intrusion into the privacy of the dentists.

Please click the below web link to see the exemption in full.
https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2000/36/section/40

##2.	Contact details for all Dental practices in the UK, including name, address, telephone number and email contact.

Please see attached. 

Please read the below notes to ensure correct understanding of the data.

This report contains the contact details for Contracts in England and Wales active from 202404. Contracts paid and not paid by NHSBSA included. The information within the report includes the data items and descriptions listed below. 													
Latest Provider Name:  The latest name of the provider 													
Principal Practice Address - Lines 1-5 and Postcode:  This is the main address used for correspondence between the NHSBSA and the dental contract, it is not necessarily the address where treatment takes place. 																
Contract Landline Number:  Phone number associated with the contract													
I can confirm that email addresses are held by the NHSBSA; however, please be aware that I have decided not to release full details of all dental email addresses as this information falls under the exemption in Section 40 subsections 2 and 3(A)(a) of the Freedom of Information Act.

This is because it would breach the first data protection principle as:

a) It is not fair to disclose these people’s personal details to the world and is likely to cause damage or distress.

b) These details are not of sufficient interest to the public to warrant an intrusion into the privacy of the dentists.

Please click the below web link to see the exemption in full.
https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2000/36/section/40

##3.	Contact details for all Pharmacies in the UK,  including name, address, telephone number and email contact	

Under Section 21 of the FOIA we are not required to provide information in response to a request if it is already reasonably accessible to you.  

The requested information is available via the following link - Contractor details | NHSBSA. 

In addition, I can confirm that the NHSBSA holds pharmacy business email addresses; however, they can be derived by using the following formula: 

‘Pharmacy.[enter ODS code]@nhs.net’ 
For example, pharmacy.fa026@nhs.net

Pharmacies ODS Codes are available via the following link: – 
https://opendata.nhsbsa.net/dataset/contractor-details. The ODS Codes are listed as the ‘Contractor Codes’ in the data.  

Please see the following link to view the section 21 in full –
 https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2000/36/section/21
 
##4.	Contact details for all Opticians in the UK, including name, address, telephone number and email contact.

Please be advised that this information is not held by the NHSBSA.

##5.	Contact details for all Ambulance stations in the UK, including name, address, telephone number and email contact.

Please be advised that this information is not held by the NHSBSA.

Publishing this response

Please note that this information will be published on our Freedom of Information disclosure log at:

https://opendata.nhsbsa.net/dataset/foi-02887

Your personal details will be removed from the published response.

##Data Queries

Please contact foirequests@nhsbsa.nhs.uk ensuring you quote the above reference if you have any specific questions regarding this response; or, if you feel you may be misunderstanding or misinterpreting the information; or, if you plan on publishing the data.
Reusing the data and copyright

If you plan on producing a press or broadcast story based upon the data please contact communicationsteam@nhsbsa.nhs.uk. This is important to ensure that the figures are not misunderstood or misrepresented.

The information supplied to you continues to be protected by the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988 and is subject to NHSBSA copyright. This information is licenced under the terms of the Open Government Licence detailed at:

http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/ 

Should you wish to re-use the information you must include the following statement: “NHSBSA Copyright 2025”. Failure to do so is a breach of the terms of the licence.

Information you receive which is not subject to NHSBSA Copyright continues to be protected by the copyright of the person, or organisation, from which the information originated. Please obtain their permission before reproducing any third party (non NHSBSA Copyright) information.



Tags: Ambulance stations, Contact details, Dental practices, GP practices, Opticians, Pharmacies
Organization: Freedom of Information Disclosure Log