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DDRB uplift in England (January 2023)

Following the 50th report of the Review Body on Doctors' and Dentists' Remuneration (DDRB), the uplift of 4.75% will be applied to all English GDS and PDS contracts on the January schedule, which will be paid on 1 February 2023. The uplift will be backdated to 1 April 2022.
 
Contracts with Foundation Dentists (FD) who ended their FD tenure on 31 August 2022 will see the appropriate uplift applied to the FD payments received. The uplift on FD payments will also be backdated to 1 April 2022.
 
Contracts with FDs who started their FD tenure on 1 September 2022 will see the appropriate uplift applied to the FD payments received. The uplift will be backdated to 1 September 2022.

In order to apply the DDRB uplift, the Contract Amend permission on Compass will be unavailable from 6pm on Thursday 19 January until 2pm on Friday 20 January 2023. 

Any contracts in an 'Amended and awaiting authorisation' status at 6pm on Thursday 19 January will be rejected and will need to be re-entered when the Contract Amend function is available.