Information requested
Under the freedom of information act 2000, please may you detail how the figures for the amount of money at risk of being lost by dental contractor fraud are calculated each year. Please may you give any estimations for how much dental contractor fraud is expected to increase by in the future.
NHSCFA response
The methods used to calculate the financial vulnerabilities for the SIA are detailed at:
For dental contractor fraud a former loss measurement exercise is used which is applied to data from: https://www.nhsbsa.nhs.uk/dental-data/nhs-payments-dentists
We do not estimate how much the amount financially vulnerable to dental contractor fraud will increase or decrease in the future; financial vulnerability estimates run a year in arrears to reporting data.
You can view the year on year financial vulnerability break down here:
https://cfa.nhs.uk/about-nhscfa/corporate-publications/SIA-23/SIA-2023-executive-summary