QI activity announced: patient perceptions of enhanced prevention
Aim is to explore patient experience of receiving SDR Item 2A.
Arrangements for the 2025-28 Quality Improvement (QI) cycle and details for the first project that is now available to complete have been published by Tom Ferris, Scotland’s Chief Dental Officer (CDO).
Dentists on a dental list are bound by the obligations described in the Terms of Service contained in The National Health Service (General Dental Services) (Scotland) Regulations. These terms of service require that dentists on either sub-part A of the first part of a Dental List or on the second part of a Dental List in Scotland on 1 August 2025 must undertake 15 hours of QI activity in the three-year cycle beginning on that date.
For the 2025-28 QI cycle, dentists are required to undertake three projects, and one project will become available in each year of the cycle. Each project will equate to five hours of QI activity and will attract the appropriate payment upon submission. Each year of the QI cycle is defined as beginning on the 1 August and ending on the 31 July of the following calendar year, this period is defined as the ‘cycle year’.
The theme of the project for cycle year commencing 1 August 2025 is ‘patient perceptions of enhanced prevention’. This dental team-led project will comprise a patient feedback questionnaire and practice team based reflective activity.
The aim of this QI activity is to explore patient experience of receiving Statement of Dental Remuneration (SDR) Item 2A – Enhanced Preventive Advice and Treatment, following the introduction of dental payment reform in November 2023. This information will help to understand how the current provision of preventive advice aligns with delivery of Values Based Health and Care.
A Turas Learn page has been created by NHS Education for Scotland (NES) to support dental teams to carry out this QI Activity and fulfil their QI requirements. This website contains all of the information necessary, including an FAQ as well as details of how to access an alternative project for specialist and referral practices.
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