Thank you for your request for information about the following:

Please can you provide a list of all current, and if possible previous, NHS dental practice contracts post April 2015 including the following fields: Contract code, practice name, full address and postcode, contract start date, contract end date.Thank you

Your request was received on 9 July 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.

This report contains the details from FP17s processed for the period stated 201516 - 202223 in England & Wales. The information within the report includes the data items and descriptions listed below.

Contract Number: This is a unique 10 character number which identifies a contract.

Provider Name: The name of the provider

Financial Year: The financial year associated with the 'Year Month' dimension in the format 'YYYY/YYYY' e.g. 2018/2019 for 201804.

Contract Start Date: The start date of the contract, as recorded on CoMPASS.

Contract End Date: The end date of the contract, as recorded on CoMPASS (only where an end date has been entered on CoMPASS).

Principal Practice Address - Lines 1-5 and Postcode: This is address line 3 of the main address used for correspondence between the NHSBSA and the dental contract, it is not necessarily the address where treatment takes place. The Principal Practice and Correspondence (PP&C) address is calculated based upon a number of rules applied in sequence:

1. If there is only one treatment location recorded in CoMPASS, then this will be assigned as the PP&C address.
2. If at the 30th of the month there is only one live treatment location, then this will be assigned as the PP&C address.
3. If there are multiple open treatment locations for the contract, the treatment location with the earliest submission of FP17/O activity will be used.
4. If there are no open treatment locations at the 30th of the month, the historic principal practice address from POL will be used.
5. If there are no open treatment locations at the 30th of the month, the address with the most FP17/O activity will be used.
6. If there are no open treatment locations but one existed and had associated FP17/O activity when the contract was live, then this address will be used.
7. Contracts that have an end date before 01/04/2013 are assigned a address.
8. For a new contract where no treatment location addresses have been entered onto CoMPASS, they are assigned a blank address.
9. If there are no FP17/O records after April 2013, the location with the most FP17/Os with no time restrictions is used.
10. Contracts that have no FP17 records are assigned a blank address.

Note: All contracts included whether or not they have a UDA/UOA Performance Target/Financial Value

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