📝 Please note: This report is coming soon for Dentally users.
What does the NHS Dental Assurance Framework Report do?
Monitor activity: See how many treatments were delivered by each practice during a specific time period.
Evaluate performance: Breaks down the data by NHS contract to assess how each contract is performing.
Track quality and delivery: Highlights both Delivery Indicators (e.g. volume of care provided) and Quality Indicators (e.g. patient outcomes or compliance with NHS clinical standards).
Support contract management: Enables comparison across practices and contracts, helping commissioners or providers ensure NHS expectations are being met.
Select Start and end dates
Select Practice(s)
Select Show comparison with
Select Indicators
Select Contract
Select Providers
This report is specific to the UK NHS and provides a summary of Courses of Treatment (COTs) data for the selected practices within the chosen date range.
The data is presented separately for each practice and is further organised by NHS contract number. Within each contract, the information is divided into two key sections:
Delivery Indicators
Quality Indicators
Delivery Indicators
This section displays the total Units of Dental Activity (UDA) delivered during the selected period. By default, the totals are shown at the practice level. To view UDA totals for individual providers within the practice, click the ‘+’ icon at the beginning of each row to expand the details.
Provider: the specific provider code (based on all COTs completed by that provider)
UDAs Claimed: the total number of UDAs claimed within the period for all COTs completed by that provider;
UDAs Verified: the total number of UDAs verified/confirmed within the period for all COTs completed by that provider;
Contract Target: the overall UDA contract target assigned to the provider within the contract for the current contract period (usually 1st April - 31st March), given as a number of UDAs that the provider needs to achieve within this contract period;
% Delivered - Claimed: shows UDAs Claimed / Contract Target as a percentage
% Delivered - Verified: shows UDAs Verified / Contract Target as a percentage
Quality Indicators
This section presents values for the selected Quality Indicator metrics. By default, totals are shown at the practice level. To view values for individual providers, click the ‘+’ icon at the start of each row.
A Quality Indicator represents a summary metric for a specific treatment type within the chosen reporting period. These metrics are typically expressed as percentages. For example, Radiographs Rate reflects the percentage of Courses of Treatment (COTs) completed during the report period where radiographs were recorded on the FP17 form.
Each row in this section displays the following fields for each Quality Indicator:
Applies To: Indicates whether the Quality Indicator applies to all patients (All) or a specific subgroup (e.g. Children aged 3–16).
Provider: The provider code, based on COTs completed by that individual provider.
Claims with Item (Quantity): The number of COTs that meet the condition defined by the Quality Indicator, completed within the report period.
All Claims (Base Number): The total number of COTs completed during the report period that meet the Applies To criteria.
Underperformance vs Comparison: Shows whether underperformance is determined by the Contract value being Above or Below the comparison value.
Contract: The calculated value for this Quality Indicator for the contract (and provider if applicable), shown as a percentage: Claims with Item ÷ All Claims × 100.
Comparison with: The benchmark value used for comparison, which could be based on the Area Team, Country, or Group Target.
Difference: The numerical difference between the Contract value and the Comparison with value.
Tolerance: The acceptable deviation (positive or negative) from the comparison value before triggering a red flag. Tolerance is scaled by contract size—larger contracts have tighter tolerances, while smaller ones allow more variance.
Area Team: The Quality Indicator value for the Local Area Team. This must be maintained by practice group users under Settings > DAF Indicators.
Country: The national average for this Quality Indicator. Maintained by MPC.
Group Target: The group-wide target value for this Quality Indicator. Also maintained under Settings > DAF Indicators by practice group users.
Report Parameters
These options define how the report is generated and what data is included:
Date Range: Sets the reporting period. Includes all completed COTs where the completion or acceptance date falls within the selected start and end dates.
Practices: Allows selection of either all practices or specific practices within the practice group.
Show Comparison With (Area Team / Country / Group Target): Specifies the benchmark against which each Quality Indicator's Contract value will be compared, for identifying underperformance (i.e. triggering a red flag).
Indicators: Allows selection of all available Quality Indicators or specific ones (e.g. Radiographs Rate) to focus the analysis.
Contract Value Filter: Filters report results based on underperformance status:
None: No additional filtering applied.
Contract Outside: Only includes Quality Indicators where the Contract value is underperforming (i.e. flagged red) at the practice level.
Contract or Provider Outside: Includes indicators where underperformance is seen at either the practice or provider level.
Dentist: Enables selection of all or specific dentists (providers).
Note: If only specific dentists are selected, the report will display data for those individuals only. As a result, practice-level totals will not reflect the full practice performance.
📝 Please note: If only specific dentists are selected, the report will display data for those individuals only. As a result, practice-level totals will not reflect the full practice performance.