The 2026 UK readiness study audited 9,840 dental practice websites across England, Scotland, Wales, and Northern Ireland. The pattern it found differs from the US: UK sites' weakest category is patient trust. 83.30% had no detectable page explaining payment, insurance, or NHS status; 80.31% had no FAQ page; 58.49% had no contact or enquiry form the scan could find.
These are the questions a prospective patient tries to answer before ringing the practice — and when a website leaves them unanswered, the patient moves to the next result. None of them require a redesign to fix; they require knowing they are missing.
The free DentalPresence check runs the same 37-check scan the study used, so a UK practice can see exactly which of these gaps apply to its own website, benchmarked against the published UK data.