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Bulletins - providers and performers

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 six most recent bulletins are available:

December 2023

Dentist Bulletin - England 

Articles include: 

  • Update your National Insurance number in Compass
  • Join an NHS Pensions member event
  • Deadline approaching for your NHS website information
  • Plans in place to issue personal numbers to Dental Care Professionals
  • NHS Dental Services Christmas opening hours

>Read the December Dentist Bulletin for England online. ​​​​​

Dentist Bulletin - Wales

Articles include:

  • Update your National Insurance number in Compass
  • Join an NHS Pensions member event
  • Plans in place to issue personal numbers to Dental Care Professionals
  • NHS Dental Services Christmas opening hours 

>Read the December Dentist Bulletin for Wales online. 

November 2023

Dentist Bulletin - England 

Articles include: 

  • Review Body on Doctors' and Dentists' Remuneration (DDRB) uplift
  • Dental practices to confirm NHS website information by 31 December 2023
  • National dental workforce collection
  • Amending your 2022/23 NHS pension data
  • NHS Pensions - Total Reward Statement refresh
  • NHS Pensions Scheme member events for NHS dental practitioners
  • Have your say on eDEN
  • Knowledge Base

>Read the November Dentist Bulletin for England online. ​​​​​

Dentist Bulletin - Wales

Articles include:

  • Amending your 2022/23 NHS pension data
  • Patient experience surveys - reminder to include contact details on FP17W claims
  • NHS Pensions - Total Reward Statement Refresh
  • NHS Pensions Scheme member events for NHS dental practitioners
  • Have your say on eDEN
  • Knowledge Base

>Read the November Dentist Bulletin for Wales online. 

October 2023

Dentist Bulletin - England

Articles include:

  • Revised biannual workforce collection form
  • Providers to complete Friends and Family Test 
  • Travel and subsistence claim information for foundation dentists
  • Dental prescriptions
  • Next steps in NHSBSA’s project to deliver the new contract management system
  • NHS Pensions Scheme member events for NHS dental practitioners
  • Dental practices to confirm NHS website information by 31 December 2023
  • Bookmark your frequently used pages in Compass
  • Dentistry Show London, 6-7 October 2023

>Read the October Dentist Bulletin for England online.

Dentist Bulletin - Wales

  • Dental prescriptions
  • Next steps in NHSBSA’s project to deliver the new contract management system
  • NHS Pensions Scheme member events for NHS dental practitioners
  • Bookmark your frequently used pages in Compass

>Read the October Dentist Bulletin for Wales online. 

September 2023

Dentist Bulletin - England

Articles include:

  • Year-end reconciliation 2022/23 - reminder
  • Travel and subsistence claim information for foundation dentists
  • Final reminder on submitting PAR scores by 30 September 2023
  • Temporary suspension of some Compass functions 
  • Dental practices to confirm NHS website information by 30 September 2023 
  • NHS Pensions Scheme member events for NHS dental practitioners
  • Adding dental practice staff members to Compass

>Read the September Dentist Bulletin for England online.

Dentist Bulletin - Wales

Articles include: 

  • Temporary suspension of some Compass functions 
  • NHS Pensions Scheme member events for NHS dental practitioners
  • Adding dental practice staff members to Compass

>Read the September Dentist Bulletin for Wales online.

August 2023

Dentist Bulletin - England

Articles include:

  • Deadline approaching for providers to submit KO41b annual complaints data
  • Orthodontic providers to submit PAR scores by the 30 September 2023
  • ARR July updates
  • 2022/23 year-end reconciliation – your final position
  • View your Annual Pensionable Earnings and Contribution Statement (SD86C) in Compass
  • Bookmarking the Compass webpage

>Read the August Dentist Bulletin for England online. 

Dentist Bulletin - Wales

Articles include: 

  • eDEN update - changes to the way patients are counted towards metrics in Wales
  • Processing SFE applications
  • View your Annual Pensionable Earnings and Contribution Statement (SD86C) in Compass
  • ARR July statements 
  • Bookmarking the Compass webpage 

>Read the Dentist Bulletin for Wales online. 

July 2023

Dentist Bulletin - England 

Articles include: 

  • Dental practice written complaints data collection opens on 12 July
  • Foundation dentists to submit travel and substance claims throughout each month
  • NHS Business Services Authority email addresses are changing
  • Orthodontic providers to submit PAR scores by 30 September

> Read the July Dentist Bulletin for England online 

 

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