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Dental Contract Reform in Wales
The Welsh Government has acknowledged the current contractual system needs reform. Units of Dental Activity (UDA) as a sole measure of contract performance, focusing on treatment activity only, does not encourage needs-led care, prevention, or make…
Dental practices to confirm NHS website information by 30 June 2023
Dental practices must confirm all of their NHS website profile information every quarter, due to new legal regulations passed in November 2022.
You need to confirm your quarter 1 profile information by 30 June 2023, for:
accepting new NHS…
Dental practices to confirm NHS website information by 30 September 2023
Dental practices must confirm all of their NHS website profile information every quarter, due to new legal regulations passed in November 2022 by NHS England.
You need to confirm your profile information for quarter two by 30 September 2023, for…
Dental practices to confirm NHS website information by 30 September 2024
Dental practices must confirm all of their NHS website profile information every quarter, due to the legal regulations passed in November 2022 by the Department of Health and Social Care.
You need to confirm your profile information for quarter…
Register for your NHSmail account
NHSmail is the national secure email service for health and social care.
NHSmail accounts are being rolled out to all dental practitioners delivering NHS and private dental services in England. Accounts are provided free of charge and will enable…
Wales Dental Access Portal (DAP) and Urgent Patient Referrals
The introduction of the Dental Access Portal (DAP) and conditions within the Variation offer for 2025–2026 have resulted in some further changes which need to be modified on Compass to ensure reporting needs support the variation offer.
NHS Dental…
DHSC PPE Portal: user research
This is an announcement on behalf of the Department of Health and Social Care.
The Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) would like to invite you to take part in user research for a new platform that will replace the current PPE Portal.
DHSC…
Compass guidance and tutorials
Guidance amendments - 'Performer' is now 'Clinician'
Due to changes within Dentistry the term 'Performer' will now be replaced by the word 'Clinician'.
We will update our guidance and other content in due course but aside from this processes will…
Improving care to high needs patients (Band 2 changes)
The calculations to award additional UDAs will be based on the Clinical Data Set (CDS) items entered on the FP17. It is therefore important that this is fully completed.
For claims with Date of Acceptance on or after Friday 25 November 2022,…
Dental Care Professionals hints and tips for making claims
Following the introduction of the changes for Dental Care Professionals (DCPs) to provide courses of dental treatment as Direct Access Clinicians we have noticed significant rejection rate for these claims.
If you have received details for errored…