Regular bulletins are created to provide useful updates for dental commissioners and providers and performers.
Bulletins will be emailed to all relevant recipients using the email address held in Compass. Make sure these details are kept up to date.
The six most recent bulletins are available:
November 2023
Dentist Bulletin - England
Articles include:
- Review Body on Doctors' and Dentists' Remuneration (DDRB) uplift
- Dental practices to confirm NHS website information by 31 December 2023
- National dental workforce collection
- Amending your 2022/23 NHS pension data
- NHS Pensions - Total Reward Statement refresh
- NHS Pensions Scheme member events for NHS dental practitioners
- Have your say on eDEN
- Knowledge Base
>Read the November Dentist Bulletin for England online.
Dentist Bulletin - Wales
Articles include:
- Amending your 2022/23 NHS pension data
- Patient experience surveys - reminder to include contact details on FP17W claims
- NHS Pensions - Total Reward Statement Refresh
- NHS Pensions Scheme member events for NHS dental practitioners
- Have your say on eDEN
- Knowledge Base
October 2023
Dentist Bulletin - England
Articles include:
- Revised biannual workforce collection form
- Providers to complete Friends and Family Test
- Travel and subsistence claim information for foundation dentists
- Dental prescriptions
- Next steps in NHSBSA’s project to deliver the new contract management system
- NHS Pensions Scheme member events for NHS dental practitioners
- Dental practices to confirm NHS website information by 31 December 2023
- Bookmark your frequently used pages in Compass
- Dentistry Show London, 6-7 October 2023
>Read the October Dentist Bulletin for England online.
Dentist Bulletin - Wales
- Dental prescriptions
- Next steps in NHSBSA’s project to deliver the new contract management system
- NHS Pensions Scheme member events for NHS dental practitioners
- Bookmark your frequently used pages in Compass
September 2023
Dentist Bulletin - England
Articles include:
- Year-end reconciliation 2022/23 - reminder
- Travel and subsistence claim information for foundation dentists
- Final reminder on submitting PAR scores by 30 September 2023
- Temporary suspension of some Compass functions
- Dental practices to confirm NHS website information by 30 September 2023
- NHS Pensions Scheme member events for NHS dental practitioners
- Adding dental practice staff members to Compass
>Read the September Dentist Bulletin for England online.
Dentist Bulletin - Wales
Articles include:
- Temporary suspension of some Compass functions
- NHS Pensions Scheme member events for NHS dental practitioners
- Adding dental practice staff members to Compass
August 2023
Dentist Bulletin - England
Articles include:
- Deadline approaching for providers to submit KO41b annual complaints data
- Orthodontic providers to submit PAR scores by the 30 September 2023
- ARR July updates
- 2022/23 year-end reconciliation – your final position
- View your Annual Pensionable Earnings and Contribution Statement (SD86C) in Compass
- Bookmarking the Compass webpage
>Read the August Dentist Bulletin for England online.
Dentist Bulletin - Wales
Articles include:
- eDEN update - changes to the way patients are counted towards metrics in Wales
- Processing SFE applications
- View your Annual Pensionable Earnings and Contribution Statement (SD86C) in Compass
- ARR July statements
- Bookmarking the Compass webpage
July 2023
Dentist Bulletin - England
Articles include:
- Dental practice written complaints data collection opens on 12 July
- Foundation dentists to submit travel and substance claims throughout each month
- NHS Business Services Authority email addresses are changing
- Orthodontic providers to submit PAR scores by 30 September
June 2023
Dentist Bulletin - England
Articles include:
- Reminder of date approaching to amend an FP17 or FP17O from 2022/23
- Dental practices to confirm NHS website information by 30 June 2023
- Deadline to complete Annual Reconciliation Report process is Friday 30 June 2023
- Dental practice written complaints data collection expected to be available from mid-July 2023
- Incorrect claims submitted by patients for free NHS dental treatment
- Providers reminded to apply for 2023/24 business rates reimbursement
- NHS Pensions member events - June dates added for NHS dental practitioners
- NHS Business Services Authority email addresses are changing
> Read the June Dentist Bulletin for England online
Dentist Bulletin - Wales
Articles include:
- NHS Business Services Authority email addresses are changing
- Update your Dental Practice Management Software (DPMS) systems
If you have questions or require any further help, you can use 'Ask Us' for Compass help and guidance articles or contact us.