The National Health Service (General Dental Services) Amendment (Wales) Regulations 2000

Explanatory Note

(This note does not form part of the Regulations)

These Regulations further amend the National Health Service (General Dental Services) Regulations 1992 (S.I. 1992/661) (“the 1992 Regulations”) which regulate the terms on which general dental services are provided under the National Health Service Act 1977.

Regulation 3 amends regulation 19 of the 1992 Regulations so that Determination V in the Table of Determinations (which are collectively published in a statement called the Statement of Dental Remuneration) relates to the subject matter “commitment payments” (“taliadau ymrwymo”).

Regulation 4 amends Schedule 1 to the 1992 Regulations, which contains the terms of service for dentists who provide general dental services in the National Health Service. The amendments concern a dentist’s obligations in respect of forms and records.

Regulation 4(2) amends the circumstances in which records must be produced for inspection.

Regulation 4(3) inserts a new requirement for a dentist to ask to see evidence in support of a claim that a patient is entitled to exemption from, or remission of, dental charges and to record on the dentist’s claim for remuneration for the treatment provided to such a patient when such evidence has not been seen.

Regulation 4(3) also inserts a new requirement so that a dentist is required to complete a form when he or she makes a claim for remuneration following being recalled to the dental practice in order to provide a patient with treatment for an emergency outside the usual practice hours. The dentist is also obliged to obtain on the said form the signature of the patient, or a person responsible for the patient, that he or she has been recalled to treat.

Regulation 4(4) inserts a requirement for a separate claim form to be completed for treatment given by assistants.