Number of practices Amount paid out Ventilation Taken up by 41/74 £137,544.68 practices or 55.4% Variable speed drills Taken up by 31/74 £174,763.42 practices or 41.9% Improvement allowance Taken up by 40/74 £244,725.45 practices or 54% 1 3. How many practices in your health board area have withdrawn or reduced NHS provision for patients – for example, registering and treating only children: Number and % withdrawn completely and number and % reduced provision Tayside status: • There have been no (0%) complete withdrawals from NHS dentistry. • There have been 2 practice closures since then (Hillbank and {My} Dentist Fintry) • There have been 2 practices (or 2.7% of the then 74) convert to seeing children only on the NHS. • There is also 1 practice currently transitioning to seeing children only (this will translate to 4% of the current 72 practices in Tayside). • Of 72 practices 36 are working at 90% or below their pre-Covid activity levels. 4.