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If you're a provider or performer based in Wales, an Assessment of Clinical Oral Risks and Need (ACORN) is a risk assessment tool and includes components that should be recorded as part of a thorough oral health assessment. An ACORN should be …

Provider Assurance Dental (PAD) carry out reviews of contractual activity. These reviews may be national and focused on the highest risk contracts for a specific scenario. Alternatively, they may be initiated by commissioners following concerns…

Activities we carry out The Provider Assurance Dental (PAD) team undertake contract and performance management activities on behalf of regional teams, reducing the burden on them. Regional teams retain decision-making authority with a light-touch…

Members of our team Paul Gray, Head of Dental Services and Clinical Policy Paul comes from a primary care dental background, having worked for 13 years in the NHS as a General Dental Practitioner. He has worked for our organisation since 1999.…

SNOMED CT is a structured clinical vocabulary for use in electronic health records. SNOMED CT is the required standard across the NHS. It must be used as the clinical standard before 1 April 2020. This applies to systems used for the direct…

Dental Services provides a number of regulatory services, including: clinical advisory services routine clinical orthodontic monitoring We also host information about SNOMED CT (Systematized Nomenclature of Medicine Clinical Terms), the …

We support primary care contractors to meet their contractual obligations. We do this on behalf of NHS England and the Welsh Government. We currently support dental providers, GPs, General Ophthalmic Services contractors, and pharmaceutical…

In March 2017 NHS England’s Office of Chief Dental Officer England published Commissioning Dental Services: Service standards for Conscious Sedation in a primary care setting. The document set out the requirements for a contractor who offers care…

Providers of NHS dentistry can apply for a business rates reimbursement from us. Providers can apply for this if: the provider or partners pay business rates for any premises from which they provide services NHS primary dental services provided…