Dentists' Working Patterns, Motivation and Morale - 2022/23

The questions for the 2022/23 survey are shown below. Guidance notes are available at https://digital.nhs.uk/data-and-information/areas-of-interest/workforce/dental-working-patterns-survey-2022---2023.

This questionnaire relates to your typical time spent in primary care dentistry in the financial year 2022/23. There are also questions regarding your dental business arrangements in that year as well as some brief questions on motivation and morale.

It is estimated this survey will take 5 minutes to complete. 

Please hover over the question mark icon (?) for further information on answering the questions. If you have any queries regarding the survey, please contact the NHS England Contact Centre on 0300 303 5678 (9am-5pm Mon-Fri) or via email at [email protected].

To get started, please enter your GDC number:

YEAR 2022/23 – 1 April 2022 to 31 March 2023

1. For how many months during the year 2022/23, including annual leave, did you work as a practising primary care dentist?

2. In a typical working week in the year 2022/23, how many hours did you spend in primary care dentistry, including both clinical and non-clinical work related to NHS/Health Service and private dentistry (non-clinical work can include administrative and management duties)?

3. On average, in the year 2022/23, how was your time spent in primary care dentistry split between clinical and non-clinical work?

      (Please ensure the two figures you provide here sum to 100%)

4. On average, in the year 2022/23, how was your time spent in primary care dentistry split between NHS/Health Service and private work?

      (Please ensure the two figures you provide here sum to 100%)

5. In the year 2022/23, how many weeks of annual leave did you take, excluding bank holidays?

6. In the table below, please tick the relevant box(es) which represent all your NHS/Health Service working arrangements in 2022/23. Please note it is possible to have more than one type of arrangement within the year or at the same time.

Question routing

Q7 only answered by first two arrangement types above, otherwise directed to Q8

7. For each contract/arrangement of which you were a provider/practice owner/director/partner or where you answered ‘performer only/associate – incorporated’ above, please tick the relevant box(es) below to indicate all your dental business arrangements in 2022/23.

Motivation

8. Please indicate (by a tick) how strongly you agree or disagree with the following statements in relation to your work in primary care dentistry in 2022/23. Please consider your NHS/Health Service and any private work when answering.

* Spoken recognition or acknowledgment (i.e. not financial) from colleagues

** Pre-tax income (after all expenses removed) for primary care dentistry

Morale

9. Previous surveys have identified a number of issues that may have a detrimental effect on morale. In order to quantify them, please indicate the extent to which each of the following adversely affects your morale (if at all) in primary care dentistry. Please consider your NHS/Health Service and any private work when answering. 

^1. Treatment complexity based on technical (and not patient) factors

^2. Pre-tax income (after all expenses removed) for primary care dentistry

^3. External regulations (including NHS/Health Service, GDC, practice inspection and decontamination)

^4. Dental workforce staff (including other dentists, dental nurses, hygienists, technicians)

^5. Please state any other issue(s) that have a detrimental effect on your morale in primary care dentistry.

10. If you have any comments relating to this questionnaire (or answers you have provided) please enter them in the following section:

For any queries, please contact NHS England on 0300 303 5678 (9am-3pm Mon-Fri) or at [email protected].