PART IIIPRIMARY CARE

Personal medical or dental services

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In the 1972 Order, after Article 15E, insert—

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1

Provision shall be made in regulations for conferring a right on any person to choose the dental practitioner from whom he is to receive primary dental services, subject to the consent of the practitioner concerned.

2

The regulations shall, in particular, prescribe the procedure for choosing a practitioner.

3

In this Article “primary dental services” means dental services which are—

a

provided, in accordance with Article 15B arrangements, as personal dental services; or

b

provided under Part VI as general dental services.