Regular bulletins are created to provide useful updates for dental commissioners and providers and performers.
Bulletins will be emailed to all relevant recipients using the email address held in Compass. Make sure these details are kept up to date.
The 6 most recent bulletins are available:
May 2025
Dentist Bulletin - England
Articles include:
- Name the new dental system that will replace Compass
- Help improve dental sector insights to inform future policy
- Annual Reconciliation Report (ARR) process is open
- Action required for Dental Performers in Compass - NI number
>Read the May Dentist Bulletin for England online.
Dentist Bulletin - Wales
Articles include:
- Name the new dental system that will replace Compass
- DAP new patient indicator - NHS number
- Annual Reconciliation Report (ARR) process is open
- Action required for Dental Performers in Compass - NI number
April 2025
Dentist Bulletin - England
Articles include:
- Patient charge increased on 1 April 2025
- Tax Credits exemptions have ended
- Annual Reconciliation Report (ARR) process is now open
- Business rates reimbursement 2025/26
- Year-end 2023/24 remedial notices for non-completion of the workforce return
- Sign up to the Transforming Dental Systems (TDS) research panel
- In which year will my claims be allocated?
>Read the April Dentist Bulletin for England online.
Dentist Bulletin - Wales
Articles include:
- Tax Credit exemptions have ended
- Three new indicators on FP17W
- New e-form for capturing empty appointments
- Annual Reconciliation Report (ARR) process is now open
- Sign up to the Transforming Dental Systems (TDS) research panel
- In which year will my claims be allocated?
- Antibiotic prescribing
March 2025
Dentist Bulletin - England
Articles include:
- End of the New Patient Premium scheme
- Planned downtime for some Compass functions
- Clinician update - Check details are up to date on Compass
- Post Annual Reconciliation Report (ARR) 2023/24 deadline
- Tax Credits to end on Saturday 5 April 2025
- Updated Friends and Family Test (FFT) timetable for 2025/26
- Reminder to submit Peer Assessment Rating (PAR) scores
- Dental practices to confirm NHS website information
>Read the March Dentist Bulletin for England online
Dentist Bulletin - Wales
Articles include:
- FP17W changes
- Tax Credits to end on Saturday 5 April 2025
- Post Annual Reconciliation Report (ARR) 2023/24 deadline
February 2025
Dentist Bulletin - England
Articles include:
- Review Body on Doctors' and Dentists' Remuneration (DDRB) uplift
- Some Compass functions unavailable
- Schedule Programme
- Workforce data collection reminder
- Contract Amend – Adding or removing a performer in-year
- Tax Credit Exemption Certificate Decommissioning
- Reminder to bookmark Compass
- Friends and Family test
- PAR score
- Dental practices to confirm NHS website information
>Read the February Dentist Bulletin for England online.
Dentist Bulletin - Wales
Articles include:
- Review Body on Doctors' and Dentists' Remuneration (DDRB) uplift
- Schedule Programme
- Tax Credit Exemption Certificate Decommissioning
- Reminder to bookmark Compass
January 2025
Dentist Bulletin - England
Articles include:
- Compass downtime
- NHS England launch Workforce Data Collection
- Reinstatement of interim Dental Assurance Framework (DAF) report
- Patient exemption guidance
- Dental practices to confirm NHS website information
>Read the January Dentist Bulletin for England online.
Dentist Bulletin - Wales
Articles include:
- Compass downtime
- Patient exemption guidance
December 2024
Dentist Bulletin - England
Articles include:
- NHS Dental Services Christmas opening hours
- Post ARR
- Dental practices to confirm NHS website information
>Read the December Dentist Bulletin for England online.
Dentist Bulletin - Wales
Articles include:
- NHS Dental Services Christmas opening hours
- Reminder: Post ARR available
- NHS Number update
- Information for Dental Care Professional Clinicians (Wales)
- Clinical Data Set
- Clinical Data Set (CDS) and the reporting of “Other Treatment”
- Dealing with activity forms (FP17Ws) that have failed validation in Compass
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