The National Health Service (General Dental Services) (Scotland) Regulations 2010

General provision relating to the dental list

6.—(1) Where any corresponding decision is made in England, Wales or Northern Ireland by an equivalent body that—

(a) a person is to be included in an equivalent list subject to conditions;

(b) a person is to be removed from an equivalent list contingent on conditions;

(c) a person is to be disqualified from an equivalent list subject to conditions; or

(d) any conditions so imposed are varied,

a Health Board shall impose those conditions in relation to the provision by that person of general dental services in the Health Board’s area.

(2) The Health Board may make such modifications of the conditions referred to in paragraph (1) as it considers necessary for the conditions to have the like effect in relation to Scotland as they do in relation to England, Wales or Northern Ireland, but only if the Health Board has previously given the person concerned notice in writing of the proposed modifications and an opportunity to make representations about them.

(3) (a) A dentist or body corporate may not provide general dental services in a Health Board’s area unless the name of that dentist or body corporate is included in the first part of that Health Board’s dental list;

(b) a dentist or body corporate may not provide general dental services in a Health Board area, (other than emergency dental services) unless the name of that dentist or body corporate is included in sub-part A of the first part of that Health Board’s dental list;

(c) subject to regulation 33(9) a dentist may not assist with the provision of general dental services in a Health Board’s area unless the name of that dentist is included in the first or second part of that Health Board’s dental list;

(d) sub-paragraph (c) does not apply to a dentist who is undertaking vocational training for the first three months of that training;

(e) a dentist or body corporate may not provide general dental services (except insofar as those services are limited to orthodontic treatment) where that dentist or body corporate has indicated in its application that it will only provide orthodontic treatment.

(4) The dental list may, provided that the dentist consents to their inclusion, also give particulars of any languages, other than English, spoken by a dentist.

(5) (a) A dentist or body corporate which is included in a Health Board’s dental list shall notify the Health Board in writing if there is a change to any of the information which that dentist or body corporate has provided in terms of regulation 5 together with that changed information within 7 days of the occurrence of the relevant change;

(b) if the change to the information is such that, had the information been part of an application it would have required any of the declarations, certificate or application, undertakings and consents required by regulation 5 to be supplied, then the dentist or the body corporate (as the case may be) must supply such declarations, certificate or application, undertakings and consents either at the same time as it supplies the information in terms of sub-paragraph (a) or by such date as the Health Board may determine;

(c) if the dentist or body corporate is included in the dental list of more than one Health Board, the dentist or body corporate shall send the notification and information referred to in sub-paragraph (a) and the declarations, certificate or application, undertakings and consents required in terms of sub-paragraph (b) to each Health Board on whose dental lists that dentist or body corporate is included.

(6) Subject to paragraph (8) the Health Board shall—

(a) send to the Scottish Ministers, the Agency, the SDPB and the area dental committee a copy of its dental list as soon as possible after its preparation;

(b) amend its dental list in respect of any change or addition notified to the Health Board in terms of paragraph (5) which affects the entries which that list is required to contain; and

(c) notify the Scottish Ministers, the Agency, the SDPB and the area dental committee of any alteration to its dental list within 7 days of the date on which the alteration is made.

(7) The Health Board shall send an updated copy of its dental list each year to the SDPB, the area dental committee and, subject to paragraph (8), to the Scottish Ministers and the Agency.

(8) Where the Health Board considers that only parts of, or only some of the alterations to, the dental list are likely to concern the Scottish Ministers and the Agency, it may instead of sending a copy of the whole list or notifying them of all the alterations, send them a copy only of those parts or notify them only of those alterations.

(9) The Health Board shall inspect at intervals not exceeding three years, all practice premises of every contractor who is included on the dental list for its area (where such premises are located within its area).