Thank you for your request for information about the following:

A list of the Dental Practises in Somerset, Devon and Dorset that receive a discount in their business rates because they treat their patients through the NHS. FOI-ICB 406 Rebecca Pow (M P Taunton Deane ) Case Ref RP194412

Your request was received on 14 August 2023 and I am dealing with it under the terms of the Freedom of Information Act 2000.

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A copy of the information is attached.

This report contains the details from FP17s processed for the period stated (Contract End Date Greater than or equal to 202304). Financial Year 2023/2024 for contracts in Bath and North East Somerset, Dorset, East Devon, Mid Devon, North Devon, North Somerset, Somerset and West Devon Local Authorities. Contracts paid by NHSBSA. 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.

Local Authority: The Local Authority the contract is located in.

Principal Practice Address - Lines 1-6: This is address line 1 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 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.

Financial Year: The financial year which the activity/contracted services relate to. Current financial year 202/2024 only.

Payment Item Amount: The amount of monies paid.

Payment Category: This is the category of payment, as used in the monthly contract payment report. Category: “Business Rates”

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The information supplied to you continues to be protected by the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988 and is subject to NHSBSA copyright. This information is licenced under the terms of the Open Government Licence detailed at: http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/

Should you wish to re-use the information you must include the following statement: “Dental Services, NHSBSA Copyright 2023” This information is licenced under the terms of the Open Government Licence:

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