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NHS update – dental contract arrangements for 2022/23 and testing

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Sara Hurley, chief dental officer for England, and Ali Sparke, director for dentistry, community pharmacy, optometry and the NHS standard contract, recently provided an update for NHS dental professionals, to discuss the dental contract arrangements for 2022/23 and covid testing.

With the contract being the primary focus of the update, they share, “We have written today to confirm dental contract arrangements for 2022/23, which set out a further step we are taking to support practices. We have also announced additional support for Q4 2021/22, following through on our commitment to review the impact of Omicron.

“Contractual requirements have always been designed to secure safe levels of patient access and reduce financial penalties for practices for reasons that may have been outside of their control. Following a review of transmitted data to date within Q4 we have introduced a minimum threshold of 75 per cent for units of dental activity (UDA) for contractors only.

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