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This data shows the number of Units of Dental Activity (UDAs) commissioned as at 31st December 2011.

Key findings this quarter:

• All 151 Commissioners (PCTs and Care Trusts) returned data.

• 89.4 million UDAs have been commissioned as at 31st December 2011.

• This represents an increase of 254,000 (0.28%) on the UDAs commissioned as at 30th September 2011.

Please note when opening this Sept 11 PCT CSV file with Excel, or when importing this CSV file into another application, the cell value for organisational code “5E1” (Stockton on Tees PCT) may be interpreted as a numeric rather than alphanumeric value and transformed into the following result  “5.00e+1” or “50”.   You will need to check and amend this value if you intend using the PCT organisational code in any analysis”.

NHS Dental Commissioning – Pre-release list May 2012 (PDF,12K)

Download dental commissioning data for quarter ending 31 December 2011 (XLS, 92K)

Download dental commissioning data PCT for quarter ending 31 December 2011 2011 (CSV, 17K)

Download dental commissioning data SHA for quarter ending 31 December 2011 (CSV,2K)

Guidance notes on NHS Dental contracts