(This note is not part of the Regulations)
These Regulations further amend the National Health Service (General Dental Services) (Scotland) Regulations 1974 to make provision relating to dentists who have been suspended from the provision of general dental services by the NHS Tribunal or whom the Tribunal has declared not fit to be engaged in any capacity in the provision of those services.
These Regulations enable Health Boards to transfer to another dentist existing arrangements for the care and treatment of the patients of suspended dentists, and to transfer them back if the suspended dentist is reinstated. The Regulations also amend Schedule 1 of the 1974 Regulations to prevent the employment, as an assistant or deputy, of any dentist suspended by the Tribunal or subject to a declaration by the Tribunal that he is not fit to be engaged in any capacity in the provision of general dental services.
The Regulations also provide for payments to suspended dentists.