The data in this dashboard has been extracted from NHSBSA ePACT2 system and the dental data warehouse.
Dental Prescribing Dashboard - April 2025 (Excel: 3.1MB)
The data covers dental prescribing and dispensing activity across England, from January 2022 onwards.
The dashboard provides insight to primary dental care teams on prescribing and how this varies across the dispensing of NHS England Integrated Care Boards (ICBs).
The dashboard is updated monthly to ensure users always have access to the most current information.
It is designed for dental public health consultants and local dental networks. It aims to help identify outlying activities and trends that could improve best practice for prescribing among primary care dentists. This data can also be used at large organisation level (ICB and above) to look at trends in antimicrobial prescribing across primary care.
Analysis is based on prescriptions submitted by pharmacy contractors and dispensing doctors in England and considers data from dental FP17 forms scheduled during the same time period.
Three key datasets are included in the dashboard:
- Overall prescribing
- Antibacterial prescribing
- Fluoride prescribing
Historic Dental Prescribing Dashboard April 2020 - December 2021
The data in this dashboard has been extracted from our ePACT2 system by the Dental Public Health Intelligence team at the Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC). We host and publish this data on their behalf.
Email DentalPHIntelligence@dhsc.gov.uk if you have any questions about this data.
Dental prescribing dashboard refresh - December 2021 (Excel: 575KB)
The dashboard provides insight to primary dental care teams on prescribing and how this varies across NHS England sustainability and transformation partnerships (STPs).
It is designed for dental public health consultants and local dental networks. It aims to help identify outlying activities and trends that could improve best practice for prescribing among primary care dentists.
Analysis is based on data from our information services database and includes prescriptions submitted by pharmacy contractors and dispensing doctors in England.
The data covers monthly prescribing and dispensing data from April 2020 to December 2021.
There are 5 reporting measures included:
- Overall prescribing
- Antibacterial prescribing
- Fluoride prescribing
- Prescribing of the top 10 antibacterial items
- Prescribing of the 4 fluoride items
