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New Datasets Now Available: Vaccine Damage Payments Scheme
9 July 2025

Data in relation to the Vaccine Damage Payment Scheme (VDPS) has been published on our Open Data Portal.  The VDPS provides a one-off, tax-free payment, currently of £120,000....
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Finalised Secondary Care Medicines Dataset (SCMD) for 2024/25 Financial Year expected in the week commencing 21 July 2025
8 July 2025

What’s new in this release The SCMD provides a provisional view of stock activity across NHS Trust sites. Each July, an annual finalised release is published for the preceding...
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Coming soon: 700k Additional Urgent Dental Appointments dataset
27 June 2025

Data on the the government's initiative to provide 700,000 additional urgent dental care appointments in 2025/26 will soon be published on the NHS Business Services Authority (NHSBSA)...
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English community pharmacy COVID-19 vaccination service fees datasets now available
25 June 2025

The English community pharmacy COVID-19 vaccination service fees datasets are now available on the NHSBSA open data portal. These datasets provide valuable insights into...
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Platform Improvements: What’s New on the NHSBSA Open Data Portal
16 June 2025

What’s New on the NHSBSA Open Data Portal We’ve recently introduced a series of improvements to the NHSBSA Open Data Portal to enhance usability, strengthen security, and...
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New Dataset Now Available: Dental New Patient Premium data

11 February 2025

The Dental Recovery Plan dataset has now been published on the NHSBSA open data portal.

For more information, including the context and reasoning behind the publication, please refer to our recent article.

This dataset provides valuable insights into [the uptake of the New Patient Premium (NPP) at Integrated Care Board (ICB) level, including the monthly number of patients and units of dental activity. It's a valuable resource for dental commissioners, dental providers, researchers, analysts, and anyone interested in the introduction of the New Patient Premium.

Explore the dataset now:

https://opendata.nhsbsa.net/dataset/dental-new-patient-premium

You can access the data via the data explorer, download it directly, or connect via API. Create an account for access to the discussion boards about the data and the ability to follow datasets for future updates.

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  • explore the data and discover insights relevant to your needs
  • let us know about any exciting use of the data and cite our data so that others can benefit too
  • share your findings and contribute to a wider understanding of the data through the discussion boards
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