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:
June 2022
Dentist Bulletin - England
Articles include:
- Internet Explorer support ended on 15 June 2022
- Annual Reconciliation Report in Compass
- Help develop the new Booking and Referral Standard
- Integrated Care Boards in Compass
- Apply for business rates reimbursement
- 2021/22 year-end letters
- Updates to the PR form
Dentist Bulletin - Wales
Articles include:
- Internet Explorer support ended on 15 June 2022
- 'Did not attend' survey
- Annual Reconciliation Report in Compass
- Dental data and eDEN FAQs
May 2022
Dentist Bulletin - England
Articles include:
- Review your performer's NPE/ NPEE in Compass
- Importance of accurate NPE/ NPEE in Compass
- Your 2022/23 Quarter 1 activity report
- Update your National Insurance number in Compass
- Submit your 2021/22 year-end declaration
- Internet Explorer support ends on 15 June 2022
- Annual Reconciliation Report in Compass
- Workforce form submissions
- Operating systems: Windows 7 and Windows 8
Dentist Bulletin - Wales
Articles include:
- Review your performer's NPE/ NPEE in Compass
- Importance of accurate NPE/ NPEE in Compass
- Update your National Insurance number in Compass
- Internet Explorer support ends on 15 June 2022
- Annual Reconciliation Report in Compass
- Operating systems: Windows 7 and Windows 8
- Patient DNA rates exercise
April 2022
Dentist Bulletin - England
Articles include:
- Validation rules for FP17s
- 2021/22 year-end declaration
- Patient identifiable dental records
- Annual Reconciliation Report in Compass
- Compass browser requirements from 15 June 2022
- 2021/22 workforce form submissions
Dentist Bulletin - Wales
Articles include:
- Review your performer's NPE/ NPEE in Compass
- Patient identifiable dental records
- Annual Reconciliation Report in Compass
- eDEN
- Compass browser requirements from 15 June 2022
- Operating systems: Windows 7 and Windows 8
March 2022
Dentist Bulletin - England
Articles include:
- Deadline to make changes in Compass
- Compass downtime and suspension of functions
- Orthodontic PAR scores
- Managed Clinical Networks
- Validation rules from 1 April 2022
- 2021/22 workforce form submissions
- Submitting FP17s for urgent care sessions
- Recording patients' NHS numbers
- Health inequalities - recording ethnicity data
- COVID-19 pay concern eForms data
- Patient identifiable dental records
Dentist Bulletin - Wales
Articles include:
- Changes to FP17Ws from 1 April 2022
- Patient questionnaire toolkit
- Patient questionnaire reporting
- PRW forms
- Annual Reconciliation Report process
- Patient identifiable dental records
- Recording patients' NHS numbers
- GDS payment schedules
- Register for eDEN
- Health inequalities - recording ethnicity data
February 2022
Dentist Bulletin - England
Articles include:
- Submitting FP17s for urgent care sessions
- Compass downtime
- Denture Additions/Reline/Rebase
- Patient exemption checking guidance
- Orthodontic PAR scores
- FP17O validation rules
- Managed Clinical Network meetings
- eDEN update
- Exceptional circumstances arrangements
- 2021/22 workforce form submissions
- Support for Dental Contract Reform prototype practices
- Upgrade your browser before June
Dentist Bulletin - Wales
Article includes:
- Changes to FP17Ws from 1 April
- PRW forms
- Patient questionnaire toolkit
- Health inequalities - recording ethnicity data
- Claiming for your business rates
January 2022
Dentist Bulletin - England
Articles include:
- Patient signatures on dental forms
- Exceptional circumstances arrangements
- FP17O validation rules
- National COVID-19 vaccination status survey
- Quarter 4 reports in Compass
- Health inequalities - recording ethnicity data
- 2021/22 workforce form submissions
- SFE business rates assurance exercise
Dentist Bulletin - Wales
Articles include:
- Patient questionnaire
- Patient questionnaire toolkit
- Changes to the Practice Record Wales (PRW) form from 1 April 2022
- FP17W guidance
If you have questions or require any further help, you can use 'Ask Us' for Compass help and guidance articles or contact us.