Dental Services: Contracts

(asked on 14th September 2017) - View Source

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, for how many NHS dental contracts in England were not all contracted units of dental activity delivered in each year from 2012 to 2017.


Answered by
Steve Brine Portrait
Steve Brine
This question was answered on 9th October 2017

The table below shows:

- the contracted units of dental activity not delivered through National Health Service dental contracts;

- total value of under delivered contracted units of dental activity; and

- number of contracts where not all contracted units of dental activity were delivered in England, for each year from 2012/13- 2016/17.

2012/13

2013/14

2014/15

2015/16

2016/17

Contracted units of dental activity not delivered through NHS dental contracts in England (to 100% level)

5,210,585

3,812,758

3,799,633

4,352,738

4,363,613

Total value of under delivered contracted units of dental activity in NHS dental contracts in England (to 100% level) (£)

113,854,578

95,227,354

105,711,840

120,090,256

128,842,469

NHS dental contracts in England where not all contracted units of dental activity delivered in each year (to 100% level)

3,320

2,659

2,704

2,688

2,409


- The table includes contracts closed during the year

Notes:

- Contracted units of dental activity not delivered through NHS dental contracts does not assume that up to 4% of under delivery is carried forward by the contractor, for delivery in the subsequent year (up to 4% under delivery is a contractual tolerance managed by commissioners).

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