Dentistry

This section is provided for health professionals (GPs, dentists, pharmacists etc).

Members of the general public are welcome to use these pages but should be aware that they are not written with them in mind. Please choose an option on the left for information aimed at the general public.

NHS dentistry

Useful contacts

Cherie Young
Commissioner for dentistry
T: 01273 574660
E: cherie.young@bhcpct.nhs.uk

 

Commissioning

• Application form for payments under the Statement of Financial Entitlements (SFE) (8kb PDF file)
• GDS contract - revised May 2009 (large 1.4mb Word file)
• PDS contract - revised May 2009 (562kb Word file)

• nGDS and nPDS notes and Frequently Asked Questions (40kb Word file)
• Oral Health Needs Assessment for Brighton and Hove (3mb Word file)
  
• Pandemic influenza – Guidance on the delivery of and contract arrangements for primary care dentistry (177kb PDF file)
• Recall and appropriate treatment policy (719kb Word file)
• The National Health Service (General Dental Services Contracts) Regulations 2005 (link to external site)
• The National Health Service (Personal Dental Services Agreements) Regulations 2005 (link to external site)
• The National Health Service (Dental Charges) Regulations 2005 (link to external site)

• Treatments applicable to each of the four Patient Charge Bands (26kb Word file)

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Referrals

• Acceptance Criteria for the Specialist Endodontic Service

  (76kb pdf file)
• Endodontic Service Referral Form (to be used in conjunction with the FP17RN) (96kb pdf file)

 

Guidance

• FP17 treatment claim form (for completion by dentists)
• Instructions for completing the FP17 form
• Exception reports procedure (296kb Word File)
• Exception reports guidance notes (241kb PDF file)

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Public health information relevant to
oral and dental health

• Incapacity benefit and severe disablement allowance (48kb pdf)
• Child poverty (260kb pdf file)
• Percentage of overweight or obese year 6 children (73kb pdf)
• Non-decent housing in Brighton and Hove (363kb pdf file)
• Synthetic estimates of lifestyle behaviours (156kb pdf file)

Child wellbeing index

• by quintiles for Brighton and Hove (120kb pdf file)
• by quintiles for England (112kb pdf file)

Index of multiple deprivation

• by quintiles for Brighton and Hove (115kb pdf file)
• by quintiles for England (116kb pdf file)

Population

• Population maps (137kb pdf file)
• Brighton and Hove ward populations (interactive) (249kb Excel)

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Special Care Dental Service

• Referral Criteria (135kb Word file)
• Referral Form -All patients (104kb Word file)
• Referral form -GA Paediatric (104kb Word file)

 

Sedation practices

Newick Dental Practice
98 Newick Road
Moulsecoomb
Brighton
BN1 9JG

St Faith's Dental Practice
17/17a Bristol Gardens
Brighton
BN2 5JE
01273 694812

Orthodontics

Total Orthodontics
49 Lansdowne Place
Hove
BN3 1HF
01273 728333

A. Farr
Sackville Orthodontics
70 Sackville Road
Hove
BN3 3HA
01273 203514

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