Thank you for your request for information about the following:

Could I please have the following national data in England - broken down by integrated care board and month, where possible - for the financial year 2023/24 (so 1 April 2023 to the latest date with available data in 2024):

• Balance of activity (UDA)

• Contracted general activity (UDA)

• Adjusted schedule activity (UDA)

Your request was received on 8 February 2024 and I am dealing with it under the terms of the Freedom of Information Act 2000.

Response

A copy of the information is attached.

Guidance Notes

This report contains the details from FP17s processed for the period stated 2023/2024 (April 2023-January 2024) in English ICBs. The information within the report includes the data items and descriptions listed below. Contracts paid by NHSBSA.

Reporting Year: The financial year which the activity relates 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.

Year Month: Used throughout the system to identify the specific year and month that the data relates to, i.e. for forms, it would be the month that the activity was scheduled. This is in the format 'YYYYMM' e.g. 201804 for April 2018.

Commissioner Code: This is the 3 character code associated with the Commissioning Organisation. This a generic term used to denote health bodies, either Area Teams in England or Health Boards in Wales. Also known as Primary Care Organisations (PCOs)

Commissioner Name: This is the name associated with the Commissioning Organisation. This is a generic term used to denote health bodies, either Area Teams in England or Health Boards in Wales.

UDA Performance Target: The contracted units of dental activity to be achieved for the year, as entered on CoMPASS by the PCO.

UDA Carry Forward: The number of UDAs carried forward from the previous year, as entered on CoMPASS by the PCO.

Total Annual UDA Delivered %: UDA Delivered-UDA Carry Forward/UDA Performance Target

UDA Delivered: The units of dental activity scheduled for the financial year to date for the period selected, relating to the financial year e.g. in December this will cover the scheduled months of April to December, excluding FD UDA for English contracts.

Please note that this request and our response is published on our Freedom of Information disclosure log at:

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