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These Regulations amend the National Health Service (Performers Lists) Regulations 2004 (“the Principal Regulations”) so as to provide for lists of persons performing primary dental care to be kept by Primary Care Trusts in accordance with the provisions of section 28X of the National Health Service Act 1977. It also makes amendments to the general provisions relating to performers lists.
Regulation 2 provides some further definitions for the Principal Regulations and regulations 3 to 7, 9 and 10 make minor amendments to those Regulations.
Regulation 8 adds provision for national disqualification.
Regulation 11 adds a new Part 3 to the Principal Regulations (regulations 28 to 33 of the Principal Regulations) which modifies the general provisions in Part 1 of those Regulations to make provisions specific to dentists.
Regulation 28 of Part 3 provides some definitions for Part 3.
Regulation 29 of Part 3 provides, subject to specified exceptions, that no dentist may perform any primary dental services unless included in such a list, what information is to be included in the list and that the list shall be published.
Regulation 30 of Part 3 supplements regulation 4 by providing for certain specific information to be provided by dentists.
Regulation 31 of Part 3 provides further grounds on which the Primary Care Trust may or must refuse to admit a dentist to its list, and matters to which it must have regard.
Regulation 32 of Part 3 provides additional grounds for the mandatory removal from its list by a Primary Care Trust of a dentist, and modifies certain provisions for removal from a list in regulation 10.
Regulation 33 of Part 3 provides an additional ground of appeal for a dentist to those in regulation 15.
Regulation 12 makes consequential amendments.
Regulation 13 revokes National Health Service (General Dental Services Supplementary List) and (General Dental Services) Amendment Regulations 2003 and Schedule 1 to the Principal Regulations.
Regulation 14 gives effect to the Schedule.
The Schedule makes transitional provisions.
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