Orthodontic services contracts

• The five suppliers that won the most orthodontic services contracts took 16% of them (11 of 71).
• The median contract, £5.8m, is 54.8 times the median across healthcare contracts (£106k).
• West Midlands had the most contracts: 40, or 56% of the total.

1. 1NHS Hertfordshire and West Essex Integrated Care Board20 contracts£120m
2. 2NHS Herefordshire and Worcestershire Integrated Care Board11 contracts£69.3m
3. 3NHS Suffolk/Norfolk commissioning bodies10 contracts£58.3m
4. 4NHS Birmingham and Solihull Integrated Care Board8 contracts£66.7m
5. 5NHS Coventry and Warwickshire Integrated Care Board6 contracts£82.9m
6. 6NHS Staffordshire and Stoke-on-Trent Integrated Care Board6 contracts£32.4m
7. 7NHS Black Country Integrated Care Board5 contracts£36.2m
8. 8NHS Shropshire, Telford and Wrekin Integrated Care Board4 contracts£31.9m
9. 9NHS Essex Integrated Care Board1 contract£92.4m

1. 1Watford Orthodontic Practice3 contracts£18.6m
2. 2The Specialist Orthodontic Practice2 contracts£15.3m
3. 3Mr A R Hare2 contracts£14.6m
4. 4Bishops Stortford Orthodontic Practice2 contracts£6.6m
5. 5Borehamwood Orthodontic Clinic Ltd2 contracts£4.3m
6. 6Harpenden Orthodontics LLP1 contract£22.0m
7. 7Malmin Orthodontic Group Limited1 contract£19.1m
8. 81OSD LIMITED1 contract£18.3m
9. 9Hitchin Orthodontic Clinic Ltd1 contract£15.0m
10. 10Rodericks Dental Partners Limited ߝ Accessible Orthodontics1 contract£15.0m

Latest

• Primary Care Orthodontic Services (official notice, opens in a new tab)

  £8.7m

  NHS Suffolk/Norfolk commissioning bodies to Suffolk Orthodontic Practice · Awarded 24 August 2026

• Primary Care Orthodontic Services Suffolk (official notice, opens in a new tab)

  £4.8m

  NHS Suffolk/Norfolk commissioning bodies to Stewart House Orthodontics Ltd · Awarded 24 August 2026

• Provision of Orthodontics Services for Black Country (official notice, opens in a new tab)

  £3.0m

  NHS Black Country Integrated Care Board to Mrs E Roberts Parkside Dental Practice · Awarded 14 August 2026

• Provision of Orthodontic Services (official notice, opens in a new tab)

  £4.0m

  NHS Herefordshire and Worcestershire Integrated Care Board to supplier not published · Awarded 14 August 2026

• Provision of Orthodontic Services (official notice, opens in a new tab)

  £11.3m

  NHS Shropshire, Telford and Wrekin Integrated Care Board to supplier not published · Awarded 14 August 2026

• Provision of Orthodontic Services (official notice, opens in a new tab)

  £2.2m

  NHS Coventry and Warwickshire Integrated Care Board to supplier not published · Awarded 14 August 2026

• Provision of Orthodontic Services (official notice, opens in a new tab)

  £23.7m

  NHS Black Country Integrated Care Board to supplier not published · Awarded 14 August 2026

• Provision of Orthodontic Services (official notice, opens in a new tab)

  £6.9m

  NHS Birmingham and Solihull Integrated Care Board to supplier not published · Awarded 14 August 2026

• Provision of Orthodontics Services for Shropshire, Telford & Wrekin (official notice, opens in a new tab)

  £5.8m

  NHS Shropshire, Telford and Wrekin Integrated Care Board to ARC Orthodontics Ltd · Awarded 14 August 2026

• Provision of Orthodontics Services for Staffordshire & Stoke-on-Trent (official notice, opens in a new tab)

  £1.9m

  NHS Staffordshire and Stoke-on-Trent Integrated Care Board to Mr R J Cure and Mr P Sitlu · Awarded 14 August 2026

Largest

• Orthodontics Service in Essex (official notice, opens in a new tab)

  £92.4m

  NHS Essex Integrated Care Board to A.F. Clough Ortho Ltd, Byles & Sebastian Orthodontic Practice, Colchester Orthodontic Centre, Colchester Smiles and Down Town Dental Clinic Limited · Awarded 10 April 2026

• Provision of Orthodontic Services (official notice, opens in a new tab)

  £29.4m

  NHS Coventry and Warwickshire Integrated Care Board to supplier not published · Awarded 14 August 2026

• Orthodontic Services, Hertfordshire 2027/37 (official notice, opens in a new tab)

  £22.0m

  NHS Hertfordshire and West Essex Integrated Care Board to Harpenden Orthodontics LLP · Awarded 18 November 2025

• Provision of Orthodontic Services (official notice, opens in a new tab)

  £19.3m

  NHS Coventry and Warwickshire Integrated Care Board to supplier not published · Awarded 14 August 2026

• Provision of Orthodontics Services for Birmingham and Walsall (2 Lots) (official notice, opens in a new tab)

  £18.3m

  NHS Birmingham and Solihull Integrated Care Board to 1OSD LIMITED and Malmin Orthodontic Group Limited · Awarded 23 February 2026

Contracts for specialist orthodontic practices to assess and treat NHS patients, mainly children and young people referred by general dentists, at Level 2 and Level 3.

• Specialist orthodontic PDS contracts
• Level 2 and Level 3 orthodontic treatment
• Orthodontic treatment for children and young people on dentist referral
• Locality orthodontic re-procurements

• General and urgent dental services (hlt.primary.nhs-dental-services)
• Community and special care dentistry (hlt.primary.community-special-care-dental)
• Hospital orthodontics and maxillofacial surgery (hlt.acute.general-acute-hospital-services)
• Orthodontic brackets and appliances (hlt.cons.dental-consumables)

• GP enhanced services
• Minor ailments scheme
• NHS dental services
• Community eye care