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Dental Payment System

Population Size

Not reported
Population Size statistic card

Years

2014

Years statistic card

Associated BioSamples

None/not available

Associated BioSamples statistic card

Geographic coverage

United Kingdom

Northern Ireland

Geographic coverage statistic card

Lead time

1-2 months

Lead time statistic card

Summary

Information on dental activity carried out by General Dental Practitioners (GDP) in NI. Includes information on GDP, dental surgeries, patient registrations, treatments carried out and submitted to BSO for payment and payments made to GDP.

Documentation

The dataset is extracted from the Family Practitioner Services dental payment system and relates to HSCNI General Dental Services activity. This payment system began operation in December 2014, with the first associated payment being made in January 2015. Data covers patient details, patient registrations, treatments, dentist contracts, dental premises and payment details. Seven years of historical data was migrated over, where possible, to this system in December 2014, however new tables were not always in the same format as old, so historical data is not always comparable. This information does not include any dental treatments delivered by Trust based dental services or any treatments carried out privately by health service dentists.

Dataset type

Health and disease

Dataset sub-type

Not applicable

Associated media

https://hscbusiness.hscni.net/services/3173.htm

Keywords

Observations

Observed Node

Disambiguating Description

Measured Value

Measured Property

Observation Date

Events

Approximately 2.1 million submissions submitted annual up to 2019/20. Approximately 0.9 - 1.1 million from 2020/21 onwards.

2100000

Count

04 Jan 2023

Provenance

Source of data extraction

Other

Collection source setting

Primary care - Clinic

Patient pathway description

This dataset deals with the FPS Dental Payment system only.

Image contrast

Not stated

Biological sample availability

None/not available

Structural Metadata

Details

Publishing frequency

Irregular

Version

2.0.0

Modified

08/10/2024

Citation Requirements

ACKNOWLEDGMENT The authors would like to acknowledge the help provided by the staff of the Honest Broker Service (HBS) within the Business Services Organisation Northern Ireland (BSO). The HBS is funded by the BSO and the Department of Health (DoH). The authors alone are responsible for the interpretation of the data and any views or opinions presented are solely those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of the BSO.

Coverage

Start date

01/12/2014

Time lag

Variable

Geographic coverage

United Kingdom, Northern Ireland

Maximum age range

120

Follow-up

Unknown

Accessibility

Language

en

Controlled vocabulary

LOCAL

Format

text, csv

Data Access Request

Dataset pipeline status

Not available

Access rights

https://bso.hscni.net/directorates/digital-operations/honest-broker-service/

Time to dataset access

1-2 months

Access request cost

https://bso.hscni.net/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/Researcher-Pack.zip

Access method category

TRE/SDE

Access service description

Remote access can now be granted via an HSCNI tenancy of the UK Secure e-Research Platform (UK SeRP), the HBS still offer the physical safe setting in Belfast for local research.

Jurisdiction

GB-GBN, GB-NIR

Data use limitation

Research use only

Data use requirements

Project-specific restrictions

Data Controller

Business Services Organisation (BSO) hold the data, research requests are approved by the Honest Broker Service Governance Board on behalf of HSC.

Data Processor

HSC Honest Broker Service

Dataset Types: Health and disease

Collection Sources: Primary care - Clinic

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