NHS Digital provides patient charge data for NHS dental services in England aggregated to Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG) level. This dataset replaced previous patient charges data at PCT level from the 2013/14 period. The data is available in CSV, HTML, and PDF formats under the OGL-UK-3.0 license.
Use Cases
- Analyzing regional disparities in dental patient charges based on CCG-level aggregation.
- Tracking changes in NHS dental service financing since the 2013/14 transition from PCT-level data.
- Evaluating patient financial barriers to dental care based on charge data.
Strengths
- Data is aggregated to Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG) level, a standard administrative unit.
- The dataset replaced a previous version, indicating a maintained series.
- Available in multiple formats (CSV, HTML, PDF) for different analysis needs.
Limitations
- Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
- Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
- Freshness should be verified as the last update timestamp is 2026-07-08.
Provenance
- Source
- NHS Digital
- Time Range
- Data series replaced previous version from 2013/14 onwards.
- Freshness
- Last updated 2026-07-08 13:31:24.111208
- Geography
- England