The National Health Service and Public Health (Functions and Miscellaneous Provisions) Regulations 2013

Amendment of regulation 5 of the Principal Regulations

19.  In regulation 5 of the Principal Regulations (interpretation of Part 3)—

(a) after the definition of “emergency services”, insert the following definition—

““mandatory dental services” means dental services which are equivalent in nature to services which must be provided under a general dental services contract by virtue of provision in regulation 14 of the National Health Services (General Dental Services Contracts) Regulations 2005 (mandatory services);”(1); and

(b) after the definition of “secondary care services”, insert the following definition—

““sedation services” means a course of treatment provided to a patient in connection with the provision to that patient of mandatory dental services during which the provider of that treatment administers one or more drugs to the patient which produce a state of depression of the central nervous system to enable treatment to be carried out, and during and in respect of that period of sedation—

(a)

the drugs and techniques used to provide the sedation are deployed by the provider of the treatment in a manner that ensures loss of consciousness is rendered unlikely; and

(b)

verbal contact with the patient is maintained in so far as is reasonably possible;”.

(1)

S.I. 2005/3361.