The National Health Service (General Dental Services) (Miscellaneous Amendments) (Scotland) Regulations 1990

Amendment of regulation 4 of the principal Regulations

4.—(1) Regulation 4 of the principal Regulations (dental list) is amended in accordance with the following paragraphs of this regulation.

(2) There are substituted for paragraph (1) the following pargaraphs:—

“(1) The Health Board shall prepare a list, to be called the dental list, of dentists who, pursuant to the provisions of paragraph (2), have undertaken to provide general dental services in its area and who are not disentitled by virtue of the provisions of—

(a) sections 25(2A) or 30(1) of the National Health Service Act 1978(1);

(b) section 8(2) of the Health and Medicines Act 1988(2).

(1A) The dental list shall, in addition to the name of a dentist,—

(a) contain—

(i) the addresses of all the practice premises and, where he provides general dental services at a mobile surgery only, the address at which correspondence in connection with such provision may be sent to him;

(ii) particulars of the days and hours when he is or will be usually in attendance at the practice premises for the provision of general dental services and, in the case of any mobile surgery, particulars of the places regularly visited by him and the times of those visits;

(iii) the name of any other dentist in association with whom he provides general dental services at the practice premises;

(iv) the date of his registration as a dental practitioner in the register kept under section 14 of the Dentists Act 1984(3), particulars of the dental qualification held by the dentist which entitled him to be so registered, including the date on which the qualification was awarded, and particulars of any other dental qualification held by him which is registerable pursuant to section 19(1)(c) of the Dentists Act 1984; and

(b) indicate—

(i) whether the dentist provides only orthodontic treatment; and

(ii) whether there is access to the dental surgery without the use of stairs.

(1B) The dental list may, provided that the dentist consents to its inclusion, also give particulars of any languages, other than English, spoken by the dentist.

(1C) The dental list may, if the Health Board thinks fit, be so arranged as to show the part of its area in which each dentist has undertaken to provide general dental services.”.

(3) There are substituted for paragraph (2) the following paragraphs:—

“(2) A dentist who wishes to have his name included in the dental list shall make an application to the Health Board in writing which—

(a) shall include the information and undertaking specified in Part I of Schedule 1A; and

(b) may include the information specified in Part II of that Schedule.

(2A) A dentist whose name is included in the dental list of any Health Board, who is requested in writing by the Health Board to supply any information mentioned in paragraph (2B), shall supply that information to the Health Board within 28 days of the date of the Health Board’s request.

(2B) The information referred to in paragraph (2A) is—

(a) if the dentist provides general dental services at a mobile surgery, particulars of the places regularly visited by him and the times of those visits;

(b) if he provides general dental services at a mobile surgery only, the address at which correspondence in connection with such provision may be sent to him;

(c) the name of any other dentist in association with whom the dentist provides general dental services at the practice premises;

(d) the date of the dentist’s registration as a dental practitioner in the register kept under section 14 of the Dentists Act 1984, particulars of the dental qualification held by the dentist which entitled him to be so registered, including the date on which the qualification was awarded, and particulars of any other dental qualification held by him which is registerable pursuant to section 19(1)(c) of the Dentists Act 1984;

(e) whether he provides only orthodontic treatment;

(f) whether there is access to the dental surgery without the use of stairs; and

(g) where the dentist consents to the inclusion of such information in the dental list, particulars of any languages, other than English, spoken by him.”.

(4) There are inserted after paragraph (4) the following paragraphs:—

“(5) The Health Board may prepare, and thereafter maintain, in addition to a dental list, any other list which may contain, in respect of each dentist whose name is included in its dental list—

(a) any information included in the dental list in respect of the dentist; and

(b) any other information related to the provision of general dental services which the Health Board has agreed with the area dental committee to be appropriate.

(6) Where the Health Board has agreed with the area dental committee that certain information is appropriate for inclusion in the list referred to in paragraph (5), it may request in writing any dentist whose name is included in its dental list to furnish the Health Board with such information as it relates to him, and the dentist shall furnish that information to the Health Board within 28 days of the date of the Health Board’s request.”.

(1)

1978 c. 29; section 25(2A) was inserted by S.I. 1981/432, article 4(3).

(2)

1988 c. 49

(3)

1984 c. 24