The National Health Service (Performers Lists) (Wales) (Amendment) Regulations 2020

Amendment of regulation 28 of the principal Regulations

2.—(1) Regulation 28 (interpretation) of the principal Regulations is amended as follows.

(2) In regulation 28(2)—

(a) in the definition of “approved trainer”—

(i) for “a postgraduate dental dean or a director of postgraduate dental education” substitute “HEIW”, and

(ii) for “him or her” substitute “the dentist”;

(b) omit the definition of “postgraduate dental dean or director of postgraduate dental education”;

(c) in the definition of “foundation training”—

(i) after “service by” insert “Velindre University NHS Trust under the direction of the NWSSP committee, and during that period the dentist must attend the practice of”,

(ii) after “trainer” insert “who has agreed with HEIW to supervise the provision by the dentist of”,

(iii) omit “to provide”, and

(iv) after “treatment and” insert “for the dentist”;

(d) after the definition of “Health Committee” insert—

““HEIW” means Health Education and Improvement Wales, the Special Health Authority established by article 2 of the Health Education and Improvement Wales (Establishment and Constitution) Order 2017(1), which must exercise its functions in relation to the planning, commissioning, delivery and quality assurance of education and training for persons engaged in the provision of health services in Wales and which, for the purposes of this Part, is responsible for the arrangement and provision of a suitable learning environment for dentists performing primary dental services to enable dentists to meet the requirements and standards of the General Dental Council and Welsh Government;

“NWSSP committee” means NHS Wales Shared Services Partnership, established by the Velindre National Health Service Trust Shared Services Committee (Wales) Regulations 2012(2), which is responsible for exercising functions of Velindre University NHS Trust in relation to shared services, policy and strategy, and the management and provision of shared services to the health service in Wales;”;

(e) in the definition of “scheme”, omit “and”;

(f) after the definition of “scheme” insert—

““Velindre University NHS Trust” means the NHS trust(3) established by article 2 of the Velindre National Health Service Trust (Establishment) Order 1993(4);”.

(3) In regulation 28(3)—

(a) in sub-paragraph (a), after “employment” insert “with Velindre University NHS Trust under the direction of NWSSP”;

(b) in the words after sub-paragraph (c)(v)—

(i) for “a postgraduate dental dean or director of postgraduate dental education” substitute “HEIW”, and

(ii) for “he or she” substitute “the dentist”.

(1)

S.I. 2017/913 (W. 224).

(2)

S.I. 2012/1261 (W. 156).

(3)

See section 18 of the National Health Service (Wales) Act 2006 (c. 42).

(4)

S.I. 1993/2838, amended by S.I. 2018/887 (W. 176); there are other amending instruments but none are relevant to these Regulations.