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Data last updated 19 December 2025
Metadata last updated 19 December 2025
Created 19 December 2025
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Licence Open Government Licence 3.0 (United Kingdom)

Data Dictionary

Column Title Type Description
REPORTING_YEAR Reporting Year string 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.
CONTRACT_NUMBER Contract Number integer This is a unique 10 character number which identifies a contract.
COMMISSIONER_NAME Commissioner Name string 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. Also known as Primary Care Organisations (PCOs))
CONTRACT_TYPE Contract Type string Either GDS – General Dental Services, PDS – Personal Dental Services or PDS Plus – Personal Dental Services Plus
CONTRACT_START_DATE Contract Start Date date The start date of the contract, as recorded on CoMPASS.
CONTRACT_END_DATE Contract End Date date Any end date of the contract, as recorded on CoMPASS. Where provided on CoMPASS an end date will show. This figure will be '31/12/9999' if no end date has been entered onto CoMPASS. (All end dates entered on CoMPASS will be displayed).
NUMBER_OF_PERFORMERS Number of Performers integer This is a count of the number of Performer Numbers. The performer’s personal number. This will be the number reported on the form or where this is not reported this will be the provider number where there is only one performer; else the form is rejected.