Research and analysis

Dental prescribing dashboard 2020

This dashboard provides insight to primary dental care teams on prescribing and how this varies across NHS England area teams.

From:
Public Health England
Published
9 August 2018
Last updated
9 November 2020 — See all updates

Documents

Dental Prescribing Dashboard refresh - March 2020

MS Excel Spreadsheet, 6.14 MB

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Details

This dashboard is designed for dental public health consultants and local dental networks. It aims to help identification of outlying activities and trends that could improve best practice for prescribing among primary care dentists.

Analysis is based on data from the NHS Business Services Authority (NHSBSA) information services database and includes prescriptions submitted by pharmacy contractors and dispensing doctors in England.

The data covers prescribing and dispensing data from October 2015 to March 2020 (quarterly) and April 2017 to March 2020 (monthly).

There are 4 reporting measures included:

  • overall prescribing

  • antibiotic prescribing

  • fluoride prescribing

  • prescribing of the top 3 antibacterial items

Published 9 August 2018
Last updated 9 November 2020 + show all updates

  1. Updated Dental prescribing dashboard up to March 2020.

  2. Updated data to June 2019.

  3. First published.

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