Search results
Showing: 10 of 24
Conscious sedation assurance pilot
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…
Provider Assurance Dental (PAD)
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…
Integrated Care Board (ICB) optometry contact email addresses
Contact details by region and ICBs:
East of England
Email hweicbhv.optical@nhs.net for:
Bedfordshire, Luton and Milton Keynes
Cambridgeshire and Peterborough
Hertfordshire and West Essex
Mid and South Essex
Norfolk and Waveney
Suffolk and…
Dental assurance reviews
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…
Clinical services
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 …
Clinical advisers
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.…
Wales ACORN support
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 …
Routine orthodontic monitoring
Our team of independent specialist orthodontic advisers perform routine clinical orthodontic monitoring.
This helps us to:
monitor the quality of orthodontic treatment
detect and prevent fraud and error
We complete monitoring on a 3-year…
Mid-year review and year-end reconciliation
Jump to:
National Dental Contract Management (NDCM) service - England only
Following the successful pilot and phase one completion of the mid-year review and year-end reconciliation activities in 2017 and 2018, the national roll out of…
Provider Assurance Ophthalmic
Activities we carry out
We work on behalf of NHS England (NHSE) on the following tasks:
annual general ophthalmic services (GOS) complaints
GOS 4 pre-authorisation
GOS contract management - visit our dedicated contract management page
post-…