Contractors in England are required to make a dental workforce data submission between 20 January 2025 and midnight on 17 February 2025.
This data will help provide a richer understanding of the real capacity of the NHS dental workforce in England and the level of vacancies, providing further evidence of the scale of the crisis facing NHS dentistry.
The online form to complete the submission can be accessed on Compass and all contractors will receive an email notification when the form is live.
The BDA has consistently argued for the administrative burden of these submissions to be minimised and in response NHS England has now reduced the frequency to once, rather than twice, per year.
As this is the first annual collection, with data already collected across January to 31 March 2024, this submission will cover April to December 2024. The next submission is then expected in early 2026 covering the full 2025 calendar year.