NHS Dental Clinical Treatments in England Aggregated by CCG

NHS Digital records clinical dental treatments in England from April 2008 onward, aggregated to Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG) level. The data originates from FP17 forms, where a single course of treatment can include multiple procedures. This dataset is licensed under OGL-UK-3.0 and was last updated on July 8, 2026.

Use Cases

• Analyze regional disparities in dental care provision based on CCG-level aggregation.
• Track trends in specific clinical treatment volumes over time based on the data's start date.
• Model resource planning for NHS dental services based on treatment counts.
• Study the co-occurrence of dental procedures within single patient visits based on the description of multiple treatments per course.

Strengths

• Data collection began on April 1, 2008, providing a long-term time series.
• Published by NHS Digital, the national provider of official health statistics.
• Available in CSV format for programmatic analysis.
• Explicitly licensed for open use under OGL-UK-3.0.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• The description notes a patient can receive multiple treatments per course, which may complicate per-procedure counts.

Provenance

Source

NHS Digital

Collection Method

Aggregated from FP17 dental treatment forms submitted by practitioners.

Time Range

From April 2008 onward

Freshness

Last updated 2026-07-08 13:32:19.713693; freshness should be verified.

Geography

England, aggregated by Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG)