Patient information leaflets
41.—(1) Subject to sub-paragraph (4) a contractor shall compile and make available, to the Health Board (if it requires one) and to any person who may reasonably require one, a document providing information about the provision of general dental services at the contractor’s practice premises (in this paragraph called “a patient information leaflet”) which shall include the information specified in Schedule 5.
(2) A contractor shall make any amendments to the contractor’s patient information leaflet which the contractor considers to be necessary to maintain its accuracy.
(3) A dentist who practises in partnership or under an associateship agreement with other dentists whose names are included in the first part of the dental list shall satisfy the requirements of this paragraph if the dentist makes available a patient information leaflet, compiled and, where appropriate, revised in accordance with sub-paragraphs (1) and (2), which relates to the partnership or associateship as a whole.
(4) The requirements of sub-paragraph (1) shall not apply to any contractor to the extent that the contractor provides general dental services only to persons detained in a prison or young offenders institution.