FOI 26585

###Request
Thank you for your request for information about the following:
‘‘Under the freedom of information act, I am seeking data on NHS dentistry Please provide data on the number of NHS dentists providing NHS dentistry for each YEAR in i) England ii) each NHS region of England iii) Wales iv) each health board of Wales, by financial year, April 2010-present. This builds on FOI Request Final Response 25537’

###Response
This report contains the details from FP17s processed for the period stated Reporting Years 2014/2015 to 2021/2022 in England Regions & Wales Health Bodies. All contracts paid by NHSBSA. The information within the report includes the data items and descriptions listed below. Only Performers who were active delivering UDA/UOA during the period.

Number of Performers:  
The number of Dentists as recorded on CoMPASS. 

Region Description: 
This is the name associated with the Region. Please note that the number of Dentists in the regions can exceed the total for the country as performers can work across different areas/contracts.

Reporting Year:  
The financial year which the activity relate to. Year-end methodology will include all activity data (including amendments) collected from FP17s scheduled in any of the fifteen schedule months from April to June, where the date of completion is on or between 1 April and 31 March of the year. 

For example, 2019-20 will include all activity data (including amendments) collected from FP17s scheduled in any of the fifteen schedule months from April 2019 to June 2020, where the date of completion is on or between 1 April 2019 and 31 March 2020. Where FP17s do not have a date of completion, e.g., where the patient has failed to return to complete the treatment, the date of acceptance is used.

Please note that this request and our response is published on our Freedom of Information disclosure log at https://opendata.nhsbsa.net/dataset/foi-26585 

If you have any queries regarding the data provided, or if you plan on publishing the data, please contact nhsbsa.foirequests@nhsbsa.nhs.uk ensuring you quote the above reference. This is important to ensure that the figures are not misunderstood or misrepresented.

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The information supplied to you continues to be protected by the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988 and is subject to NHSBSA copyright. Should you wish to re-use the information you must include the statement “NHSBSA Copyright 2022”. This information is licenced under the terms of the Open Government Licence (http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/) – 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: Dental, FP17
Organization: Freedom of Information Disclosure Log