Thank you for your request for information about the following:

‘A listing showing for the last financial year, the number of 'Courses of Treatment'/forms submitted by each dentist registered on the NHS performers list, separated for England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland (ideally by region within each country). Firstly I appreciate there is still a submission period for final submissions and the figures are subject to a little change (either way) until the end of June, but I am happy to take the current figures as they stand with that 'subject to change' caveat. I don't need individual names, just an Excel sheet for each of the four regions with a listing of the volumes in increasing order (including any zeros). So each of the four sheets would typically be one column with a lot of entries, starting at zero. As a guide the total number of entries for the four sheets would be about 22000. If it makes it any easier, you could use one sheet, as long as I can separate out the various regions for separate analysis.’

Your request was received on 20 April 2023 and I am dealing with it under the terms of the Freedom of Information Act 2000.

Response

A copy of the information is attached. Please read the below notes to ensure correct understanding of the data.

Scotland and Northern Ireland

Please note we do not hold data for Scotland and Northern Ireland.

Information for Scotland can be obtained by contacting:

Customer Service Desk

NHS National Services Scotland

Gyle Square

1 South Gyle Crescent

Edinburgh

EH12 9EB

Tel: 0131 275 6665

Email: NSS.Communications@nhs.net

Website: www.isdscotland.org

Web form http://www.nhsnss.org/pages/corporate/foi_request_form.php

FOISA Disclosure log http://www.nhsnss.org/pages/publications/foi_disclosures.php

Information for Northern Ireland can be obtained by contacting:

Corporate Services Department

HSC Business Services Organisation

2 Franklin Street

Belfast

BT2 8DQ

Tel: 028 9032 4431

Website: http://www.hscbusiness.hscni.net/

Email Foi.bso@hscni.net

FOI Disclosure log http://www.hscbusiness.hscni.net/information/2107.htm

Guidance Notes

This report contains the details from FP17s processed for the period stated Reporting Year 2022/2023 (202204-202304) England and Wales. All contracts paid by NHSBSA. The information within the report includes the data items and descriptions listed below. Only Performers who were active submitting FP17(O)s during the period.

Reporting Year

The financial year which the activity relate to. Year-end methodology will include all activity data (including amendments) collected from FP17s scheduled in any of the fifteen schedule months from April to June, where the date of completion is on or between 1 April and 31 March of the year. For example 2019-20 will include all activity data (including amendments) collected from FP17s scheduled in any of the fifteen schedule months from April 2019 to June 2020, where the date of completion is on or between 1 April 2019 and 31 March 2020. Where FP17s do not have a date of completion, e.g. where the patient has failed to return to complete the treatment, the date of acceptance is used.

Country Name

This is the name associated with the Country the contract is located in.

Total FP17(O)s

This is a count of the number of FP17s and FP17Os scheduled including adjustments for amended and deleted FP17s. Withdrawn FP17s are not included in the total count of FP17s. This figure may be zero or negative if deleted FP17s have been processed.

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