Specialist dental accountancy
We work only with UK dentists. Principals, partners, associates, locums and corporate dental groups. From NHS contract reporting through profit extraction to practice purchase and sale.
Start with compliance essentials, add monthly management accounts as you grow, move to specialist advisory as you scale or plan an exit. You can move tier at any month-end.
Associates, locums and single-handed practices that need the compliance basics sorted and a specialist eye on their numbers.
Multi-associate practices and principals who want monthly management accounts plus proactive tax planning across the year.
Multi-site groups, partnership restructures, and principals planning a sale who need advisory depth alongside full compliance.
Six areas of work that come up again and again in UK dental practice. Each card says where its link goes, and the full set of specialist service pages is listed below.
Compliance
Monthly management accounts that separate NHS UDA value, private fee income and capitation plan income, so you see where the profit really comes from. Year-end statutory accounts and corporation tax filed on time, every time.
Tax
Proactive planning across the tax year, not just at year end. A specialist from our partner network models salary and dividend extraction, NHS Pension interaction, employer pension contributions, and timing decisions for principals, partners and associates working through limited companies.
Structure
Sole trader, expense-share partnership, full LLP, limited company, holding-company structure. Each shape has different NHS Pension consequences, different goodwill treatment and different exit economics. A specialist from our partner network models the trade-offs in your specific numbers.
Specialist
Self-employment status review against the post-IR35 tests (control, substitution, mutuality of obligation, financial risk, integration). Allowable expenses checklist for associates. Umbrella vs limited company vs self-employed analysis for locums working across NHS practices.
Lifecycle
Financial due diligence on the seller's accounts. EBITDA normalisation. Goodwill valuation against current UK dental market multiples. SDLT and CGT planning. Section 162 relief modelling if you're incorporating before sale. BADR eligibility check.
Operations
Practice payroll for nurses, hygienists, therapists, treatment co-ordinators and trainees. Auto-enrolment workplace pension administration. CIS if you're engaging subcontracted lab technicians or refurb contractors. P11D returns and benefit-in-kind handling.
Every one of these goes into the detail: what the work covers, where the money usually leaks, and the questions worth asking before you appoint anyone.
The things that should be baseline at any specialist firm. Plenty are not.
Dentistry is the whole remit here: NHS contracts and UDA reconciliation, associate agreements, practice sales, the NHS Pension. Nothing on this page is a generalist service with a dental label attached to it.
Tell us what you are dealing with and we pass the detail to dental accountancy firms that handle that specific problem, so the first conversation starts from your NHS contract and your returns rather than from a standard intake script.
Ask any firm for the scope in writing: which returns and accounts are covered, who does the NHS Pension certificate, what triggers extra work, and how a mid-year change such as incorporation is handled. A firm that will not put that in writing is telling you something.
A specialist firm does not wait to be asked. If your salary and dividend split is leaking tax, if your goodwill amortisation election was missed, if your NHS Pension annual allowance is heading toward a charge, they flag it before you ask.
Decisions that look obvious in isolation, incorporating, drawing dividends, employing a spouse, can quietly reduce NHS Pension benefits or trigger annual allowance charges. Pension consequences get factored into every structural decision.
Free scoping call
A specialist from our partner network will review your practice structure, NHS contract position and current accountant set-up, then give you clear recommendations. If they are not the right fit, they will tell you and suggest who is.
Tell us the situation and a specialist dental accountant will make contact.