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We know it.","\u003Cdiv>\u003Cp style=\"color:var(--muted);font-size:17px;line-height:1.6;margin-bottom:18px;\">Dental practice accountants reconcile the NHS contract schedule to the practice ledger, split NHS and private income at source, determine associate employment status in writing, and model the point at which incorporation beats sole-trader treatment. The NHS side is the specialist part, because UDA delivery, clawback and superannuation all settle in arrears.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp style=\"color:var(--muted);font-size:17px;line-height:1.6;margin-bottom:18px;\">Dental practice accounting sits at an unusual intersection of professional services, healthcare regulation and small-business operations. The NHS contract regime adds complexity that generalist accountants rarely understand: UDA values, prior-year reconciliations, mid-year adjustments, exceptional circumstances claims. On top of that sits the private-fee book, lab fees, materials costs, associate arrangements and the principal's own tax planning.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp style=\"color:var(--muted);font-size:17px;line-height:1.6;margin-bottom:18px;\">Associate tax status is a perennial issue. HMRC has historically accepted that dental associates are self-employed where the standard BDA template contract is used, but the position has tightened in recent years, and many practices have associates who, on a strict reading of the IR35 \u002F employment-status rules, are arguably employees. Getting this wrong is expensive, either through NIC liabilities or through reputational damage to the practice.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp style=\"color:var(--muted);font-size:17px;line-height:1.6;margin-bottom:18px;\">We work with single-handed dental practices, multi-site groups, NHS-only practices, private-only practices and mixed practices. Our scope covers daily bookkeeping, the NHS schedule reconciliation, associate payments and 1099-NEC equivalents (CIS-style record keeping), principal-level tax planning (including incorporation analysis), and practice valuations for buy-ins, sales and partnership changes.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003C\u002Fdiv>","grid","blocks.section-head",{"id":359,"eyebrow":360,"heading":361,"body":49,"gridBody":362,"layout":356,"__component":357},14442,"Why us","Why dental practices choose us.","\u003Cp class=\"lead\">Sector-specific expertise from people who know the regime.\u003C\u002Fp>",{"id":364,"heading":49,"dark":131,"variant":365,"note":49,"cells":366,"__component":388},6935,"default",[367,373,378,383],{"id":368,"num":369,"numUsd":49,"eyebrow":49,"headline":370,"avatar":49,"body":371,"span":372,"rowSpan":79,"accent":79,"dark":79,"href":49},27584,"01","NHS contract literate","UDA reconciliation, mid-year adjustments, exceptional circumstances claims: all routine work.","2",{"id":374,"num":375,"numUsd":49,"eyebrow":49,"headline":376,"avatar":49,"body":377,"span":372,"rowSpan":79,"accent":79,"dark":79,"href":49},27585,"02","Associate status experts","Risk-aware status determination, properly documented. No HMRC surprises.",{"id":379,"num":380,"numUsd":49,"eyebrow":49,"headline":381,"avatar":49,"body":382,"span":372,"rowSpan":79,"accent":79,"dark":79,"href":49},27586,"03","Practice valuation capable","Buy-ins, sales, partnership changes. We provide defensible valuations.",{"id":384,"num":385,"numUsd":49,"eyebrow":49,"headline":386,"avatar":49,"body":387,"span":372,"rowSpan":79,"accent":79,"dark":79,"href":49},27587,"04","Principal-focused tax planning","Incorporation, pension optimisation, drawings strategy: modelled with real numbers.","blocks.bento",{"id":390,"eyebrow":391,"heading":392,"body":49,"gridBody":393,"layout":356,"__component":357},14443,"The NHS schedule","What does an NHS dental reconciliation actually involve?","\u003Cdiv>\u003Cp style=\"color:var(--muted);font-size:17px;line-height:1.6;margin-bottom:18px;\">Every month the practice receives a schedule showing contract value, UDAs delivered to date, patient charge revenue collected on the NHS contract's behalf, and deductions for superannuation and levies. Almost none of those figures are revenue in the accounting sense. The gross contract value is earned by delivering UDAs, patient charges are collected and handed back, and superannuation is a payroll-adjacent deduction that belongs to individual performers rather than the practice. Booking the net bank receipt as income, which is what most generalist bookkeeping does, produces accounts that cannot be reconciled to the contract at all.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp style=\"color:var(--muted);font-size:17px;line-height:1.6;margin-bottom:18px;\">The order of work matters. We reconcile contract value and UDA delivery first, because under-delivery below the contracted threshold triggers clawback that has to be provided for during the year rather than discovered at the year end. Then we strip out patient charge revenue, then we allocate superannuation to each performer so the annual reconciliation and the \u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fwww.nhsbsa.nhs.uk\u002Fnhs-pensions\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">NHS Pensions\u003C\u002Fa> estimate agree. Only then does the private fee book, lab costs and materials come in, which is where the practice's real margin lives. The daily posting that feeds the reconciliation runs through our \u003Ca href=\"\u002Fservices\u002Fcloud-bookkeeping\">cloud bookkeeping service\u003C\u002Fa>.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp style=\"color:var(--muted);font-size:17px;line-height:1.6;margin-bottom:18px;\">Associate status is the other perennial. Historically associates on the standard template contract were treated as self-employed, and that position has narrowed. We run a documented determination per associate using HMRC's \u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fwww.gov.uk\u002Fguidance\u002Fcheck-employment-status-for-tax\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Check Employment Status for Tax tool\u003C\u002Fa> and record the reasoning, because the risk is not the current year, it is four years of employer National Insurance assessed at once. Principals weighing incorporation should read it alongside \u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fwww.gov.uk\u002Fcorporation-tax-rates\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">the Corporation Tax rate bands\u003C\u002Fa>, and we model both routes with the practice's own numbers. Related medical work sits on our \u003Ca href=\"\u002Findustries\u002Fdoctors\">accounting for doctors and GPs page\u003C\u002Fa>. Practice payroll, including associate and hygienist payments, runs through our \u003Ca href=\"\u002Fservices\u002Fpayroll\">payroll service\u003C\u002Fa>, and principals who want numbers monthly rather than annually use our \u003Ca href=\"\u002Fservices\u002Fmanagement-accounts\">monthly management accounts service\u003C\u002Fa>. Both sit with the rest of our work in the \u003Ca href=\"\u002Fservices\">list of accounting services we run\u003C\u002Fa>.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003C\u002Fdiv>",{"id":395,"eyebrow":396,"heading":397,"body":398,"gridBody":49,"layout":49,"__component":357},14444,"Where the money comes from","Every dental income stream, and what it has to be reconciled to","The NHS side settles in arrears against a contract schedule, which is why the ledger and the bank never agree on their own.",{"id":400,"heading":397,"columns":401,"rows":406,"__component":437},168,[402,403,404,405],"Income stream","Settles","Reconciled against","What it hides if it is not",[407,412,417,422,427,432],{"Settles":408,"Income stream":409,"Reconciled against":410,"What it hides if it is not":411},"Monthly in arrears, one twelfth of the annual contract value","NHS contract payments","The monthly NHS schedule showing UDAs delivered against contract","Under-delivery building quietly toward a year end clawback nobody has provided for",{"Settles":413,"Income stream":414,"Reconciled against":415,"What it hides if it is not":416},"Collected at the practice, then deducted from the NHS payment","Patient charge revenue on NHS work","The same schedule","Income counted twice, once as cash and once inside contract value",{"Settles":418,"Income stream":419,"Reconciled against":420,"What it hides if it is not":421},"Deducted at source from the contract payment","NHS superannuation","The pension record held for each performer","A pension input amount that does not agree with the practice ledger",{"Settles":423,"Income stream":424,"Reconciled against":425,"What it hides if it is not":426},"On treatment, or on a plan cycle","Private fee income","The practice management system, treatment by treatment","Treatment completed, delivered and never invoiced",{"Settles":428,"Income stream":429,"Reconciled against":430,"What it hides if it is not":431},"Monthly, net of the provider's own fee","Plan provider income","The provider statement","Provider fees netted into income rather than shown as the cost they are",{"Settles":433,"Income stream":434,"Reconciled against":435,"What it hides if it is not":436},"On the associate's agreed share of the fee book","Associate payments","The associate agreement and the written status determination held for them","An employment status position nobody has committed to paper","blocks.compare-table",{"id":439,"eyebrow":440,"heading":441,"body":442,"gridBody":49,"layout":49,"__component":357},14445,"What we handle","Dental-specific scope.","Sector expertise without sector premium pricing.",{"id":444,"heading":49,"intro":49,"items":445,"__component":454},2975,[446,447,448,449,450,451,452,453],"NHS contract reconciliationMonthly NHS Pension Authority schedules reconciled. UDA performance tracked. Mid-year adjustments and exceptional-circumstances claims documented.","Mixed NHS-private splitNHS and private income split cleanly. Patient-level fee tracking where useful. Compliance with NHS regulations around private-mixing.","Associate tax statusStatus determination using HMRC CEST and BDA template contract analysis. Risk position documented in writing.","Associate payments & CIS-style recordsSelf-employed associate payments tracked. Statements of earnings issued. 60% \u002F 50% split arrangements correctly recorded.","Practice incorporation analysisWhen incorporation makes sense (typically £80k+ profit), we model the specific numbers and handle the conversion.","Practice valuationsFor buy-ins, sales, partnership changes and goodwill assessments. EBITDA-multiple, asset-based and goodwill methodologies applied.","Principal Self-AssessmentDental-specific reliefs claimed. Pension scheme contributions optimised. Loan-account drawings managed.","Lab & materials cost trackingLab fees, restorative materials, consumables tracked separately. Cost-of-revenue analysis at the treatment-type level where useful.","blocks.deliverables",{"id":456,"quote":457,"name":458,"role":459,"company":49,"avatar":49,"__component":460},2549,"Our previous accountant didn't understand NHS schedules. We were owed £18k of UDA adjustments we hadn't claimed. Accountaire surfaced and recovered everything in the first six months.","Principal · 2-site dental practice","Surrey & Hampshire","blocks.testimonial",{"id":462,"heading":463,"items":464,"__component":489},1901,"Six questions for dental practice accountants.",[465,469,473,477,481,485],{"id":466,"question":467,"answer":468},11994,"Can you handle our NHS contract reconciliation?","A shortfall found in month nine can often be worked back with extra sessions. The same shortfall found after the year end is a clawback with a payment date attached. So we run the reconciliation monthly and provide for under-delivery as it accrues, and because the closing statement arrives after your accounts date, that provision is what makes the accounts hold.",{"id":470,"question":471,"answer":472},11995,"What's the position on associate tax status?","Historically HMRC has accepted self-employed status for associates on BDA template contracts. The position is tightening, particularly for associates working materially the same way as employees. We perform a documented status determination on each associate and flag elevated-risk arrangements.",{"id":474,"question":475,"answer":476},11996,"When should I incorporate my dental practice?","Profit is only half the test for a practice. Above roughly £80k–£100k of consistent annual profit the dividend route starts to beat the extra admin on tax alone, but the mechanics decide whether it happens this year or next: goodwill valuation, novating the NHS contract, and moving the surgery assets across. We model the numbers against those steps rather than in isolation.",{"id":478,"question":479,"answer":480},11997,"Can you value a dental practice?","NHS goodwill rests on a contract that has to be novated to the buyer, so the price carries a discount for the risk it is not. Income that follows the principal personally is discounted for the same reason. Contract security moves the figure far more than the multiple does. A buy-in is not priced like a sale either, because the incoming partner helps earn the profit being bought.",{"id":482,"question":483,"answer":484},11998,"Do you handle dental pension contributions properly?","Yes: NHS Pension Scheme contributions for both principals and employed staff. Annual Allowance and Lifetime Allowance interaction managed. Tapered annual allowance modelled where principals are high earners.",{"id":486,"question":487,"answer":488},11999,"What about the new dental contract reforms?","Model any variation before signing it rather than afterwards. A change to how activity is banded or paid moves the break-even point for identical clinical work, and it stops this year comparing with last year, which is the part that undoes anyone benchmarking against their own history. We restate the comparatives onto the new basis so the trend still means something to the partners reading it.","blocks.faq",{"id":491,"eyebrow":492,"heading":493,"body":49,"gridBody":49,"layout":49,"__component":357},14446,"Recommended services","Practices usually add these.",{"id":495,"heading":49,"dark":79,"variant":365,"note":49,"cells":496,"__component":388},6936,[497,501,505,509,514],{"id":498,"num":499,"numUsd":49,"eyebrow":49,"headline":179,"avatar":49,"body":500,"span":372,"rowSpan":79,"accent":79,"dark":79,"href":180},27588,"INDUSTRY","Similar specialist scope for medical practices.",{"id":502,"num":503,"numUsd":49,"eyebrow":49,"headline":114,"avatar":49,"body":504,"span":372,"rowSpan":79,"accent":79,"dark":131,"href":115},27589,"COMPLIANCE","Principal personal returns.",{"id":506,"num":507,"numUsd":49,"eyebrow":49,"headline":106,"avatar":49,"body":508,"span":372,"rowSpan":79,"accent":79,"dark":79,"href":107},27590,"SETUP","Practice incorporation analysis and execution.",{"id":510,"num":511,"numUsd":49,"eyebrow":49,"headline":512,"avatar":49,"body":513,"span":372,"rowSpan":79,"accent":79,"dark":79,"href":87},27591,"PAYROLL","Practice payroll and superannuation","Nurses, hygienists and performers, with NHS Pension deductions handled.",{"id":515,"num":516,"numUsd":49,"eyebrow":49,"headline":517,"avatar":49,"body":518,"span":372,"rowSpan":79,"accent":79,"dark":131,"href":244},27592,"MARKET","UK accounting and HMRC filings","The wider UK compliance calendar your practice sits inside.",{"id":520,"cta":521,"__component":526},2200,{"id":520,"eyebrow":522,"heading":523,"body":524,"primaryLabel":525,"primaryHref":323,"secondaryLabel":49,"secondaryHref":49,"dark":79},"For dental practices","Want NHS-literate dental accounting?","Thirty minutes to review your contract, associate arrangements and practice structure.","Book a dental practice accounting call","blocks.cta-banner"]