Service market

NHS dental services contracts

UK public sector · 77 contracts awarded in the 12 months to 6 October 2026

Covering 600+ buyer portals · 5 years of records · Updated 6 October 2026 · How we count

Contracts awarded
77
Last 12 months
Median contract
£669k
Recorded value
Recorded value
£145m
66 of 77 main-service contracts have a published value
Buyers
20
Suppliers
99

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What stands out

  • The five suppliers that won the most NHS dental services contracts took 17% of them (13 of 77).
  • The median contract, £669k, is 6.3 times the median across healthcare contracts (£106k).
  • East of England had the most contracts: 41, or 53% of the total.

Who buys NHS dental services

By contracts awarded, the 12 months to 6 October 2026.

  1. 1NHS Hertfordshire and West Essex Integrated Care Board19 contracts
  2. 2NHS Suffolk/Norfolk commissioning bodies13 contracts
  3. 3NHS Surrey and Sussex Integrated Care Board7 contracts
  4. 4NHS Wales Shared Services Partnership6 contracts
  5. 5NHS North East and North Cumbria Integrated Care Board5 contracts
  6. 6NHS Cheshire and Merseyside ICB5 contracts
  7. 7NHS Cambridgeshire and Peterborough Integrated Care Board4 contracts
  8. 8NHS Suffolk and North East Essex Integrated Care Board2 contracts
  9. 9Hywel Dda University Health Board2 contracts
  10. 10NHS Thames Valley Integrated Care Board2 contracts

Top NHS dental services contractors by contracts won

The 12 months to 6 October 2026.

  1. 1Damira Dental Studios Ltd4 contracts
  2. 2Paul John Jones3 contracts
  3. 3Dentistry for You3 contracts
  4. 4Chartwell Dental Practice3 contracts
  5. 5Oasis Dental Care2 contracts
  6. 6SGA Services Ltd2 contracts
  7. 7Revive Dental Care2 contracts
  8. 8Queensway Dental2 contracts
  9. 9Bridgewater Community Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust2 contracts
  10. 10Exeter Close Dentist2 contracts

Latest and largest awards

Each links to the official notice.

Latest

Largest

Contracts awarded by quarter

13Q4 2025*44Q1 202617Q2 20263Q3 20260Q4 2026*
* part quarter

Where the contracts were awarded

England 69 · Wales 8

East of England41South East11Wales8North West7North East5Yorkshire and The Humber2East Midlands1South West1UK-wide or not stated1

What is included

Contracts to deliver NHS dentistry from dental practices: general dental services and PDS contracts, urgent dental care and access sessions, conscious sedation and intermediate minor oral surgery.

  • General Dental Services (GDS) and PDS contracts
  • Urgent dental care triage and treatment
  • Dental access sessions
  • Conscious and advanced sedation dental services
  • Intermediate minor oral surgery (IMOS)

What is not included

  • Community, special care and domiciliary dentistry (hlt.primary.community-special-care-dental)
  • Orthodontic services (hlt.primary.nhs-orthodontic-services)
  • Oral health promotion (hlt.comm.oral-health-improvement)
  • Hospital oral and maxillofacial surgery (hlt.acute.general-acute-hospital-services)
  • Dental care in prisons (hlt.justice.prison-detention-healthcare)
  • Dental consumables and laboratory work (hlt.cons.dental-consumables)
  • Dental chairs and surgery equipment (hlt.equip.dental-equipment)
  • Dental clinical systems (it.lob.dental-clinical-system)

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