Request

I am requesting exactly the same data as FOI-03130, but including data for the 2024/2025 financial year. Thank you very much for your assistance. The request for that FOI was:

I would like to request data under the Freedom of Information Act for the purposes of academic research.

Could you please provide for each financial year from 01-04-2016 to 31-03-2024 (note I am now asking for data from 01-04-2018 to 31-03-2025) for all dental providers in England and Wales, the total number of claims, and the total UDAs delivered by each dentist on each General Dental Services contract.

This should include a column to identify the financial year, a column with a persistent identifier for the dentist (for example name and/or GDC number, or an anonymised UID that is consistent across time), a column with the number of years since the dentist was added to the NHS Performers list, a column indicating whether the dentist is a performer only or a provider performer, a column with the contract number the claims and UDAs are associated with, a column with the postcode of the contract number, a column with the ODS code associated with the contract number (if known), a column with the number of claims in the year for that dentist on that contract number and a column with the number of UDAs delivered in the year by that dentist on that contract number.

Therefore if there is a dentist that delivers care on two dental contracts in a year, there should be two rows for that dentist in that year.

Please can you provide this in a csv file or xlsx file (or in multiple files if they are too large). I am aware that the data is available at practice level on the NHS Open Data Portal, but I am interested at the dentist level. Thank you for your assistance.

Response

2024-2025 Financial year data

I can confirm that the NHSBSA holds the information you have requested and a copy of the information is attached.

2016-2024 Financial year data

Under Section 21 of the FOIA we are not required to provide information in response to a request if it is already reasonably accessible to you.

The information you requested is available from https://opendata.nhsbsa.net/dataset/foi-03130

Please see the following link to view the section 21 in full - https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2000/36/section/21

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