Scottish Statutory Instrument 1999 No. 51

The National Health Service (General Dental Services) (Scotland) Amendment (No.2) Regulations 1999

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Amendment of regulation 2 of the principal Regulations
     3. In regulation 2 (interpretation)-

(a) in paragraph (1)-


(i) in the definition of "estimate" after the words "Health Board" there is inserted "or primary care NHS trust";

(ii) in the definition of "patient record" after the words "Health Board" there is inserted "or primary care NHS trust";

(iii) after the definition of "practice premises" there is inserted-

" "primary care NHS trust" means an NHS trust to which certain functions referred to in section 12AA of the Act are delegated by the Health Board;"[3];

(iv) in the definition of "salaried dentist"[4] after the word "or" there is inserted "primary care";



(b) in paragraph (1A) for the words "a Board" there is substituted "a Health Board or primary care NHS trust"[5].

Amendment of regulation 4 of the principal Regulations
     4. In regulation 4 of the principal Regulations (dental list)[6]-

(a) in paragraph (1)-


(i) after the words "Health Board" there is inserted "or primary care NHS trust";

(ii) for the words "its area" there is substituted "the appropriate part of the Health Board's area";



(b) in paragraph (4)-



(i) after the words "Health Board" there is inserted "or primary care NHS trust";

(ii) for the words "its area" there is substituted "the Health Board's area";



(c) in paragraphs (5), (6), (8) and (9) after the words "Health Board" in each place where they occur and in paragraph (7) in the first place where those words occur and in paragraph 7(vi) where those words occur there is inserted "or primary care NHS trust".

Amendment to regulation 9 of the principal Regulations
     5. In regulation 9 (local directory of dentists)-

(a) in paragraph (1) after the words "Health Board" in each place where they occur there is inserted "or primary care NHS trust";

(b) in paragraph (2)-


(i) after the words "Health Board" in each place where they occur there is inserted "or primary care NHS trust";

(ii) after the words "Health Board's" there is inserted or "primary care NHS trust's".

Amendment of regulation 17 of the principal Regulations
     6. In regulation 17 of the principal Regulations (emergency dental services)-

(a) in paragraph (1)-


(i) after the words "Health Board" in the first place where they occur there is inserted "or primary care NHS trust";

(ii) after the words "Health Board" in the second place where they occur there is inserted ", primary care NHS trust or NHS trust";

(iii) for the words "its area" in both places where they occur there is substituted "the Health Board's area";



(b) in paragraph (2) after the words "Health Board" there is inserted "or primary care NHS trust".

Amendment of regulation 18 of the principal Regulations
     7. In regulation 18 (arrangements for emergency cover) after the word "or" there is inserted "primary care".

Amendment of regulation 19 of the principal Regulations
     8. In regulation 19 (Health Board patient information leaflets)[7]-

(a) in the heading after the words "Health Board" there is inserted "or primary care NHS trust";

(b) after the words "Health Board or" there is inserted "primary care";

(c) for the words "its area" there is substituted "the appropriate part of the Health Board's area";

(d) after the words "Health Board" in the second place where they occur there is inserted "or primary care NHS trust".

Amendment of regulation 23 of the principal Regulations
     9. In regulation 23 of the principal Regulations (approval of payments), in paragraph (5) after the words "Health Board" there is inserted "or primary care NHS trust".

Amendment of regulation 31 of the principal Regulations
     10. In regulation 31 (overpayments)-

(a) after the words "Health Board's" there is inserted "or primary care NHS trust's";

(b) in paragraph (b) after the words "Health Board" there is inserted "or primary care NHS trust".

Amendment of regulation 34A of the principal Regulations
     11. In regulation 34A of the principal Regulations (appeals from decisions of the Board)[8]-

(a) in paragraphs (2), (3)(c)(ii), (5), (6), (8), (9), (10), (11), (12), (15) and (16) after the words "Health Board" in each place where they occur there is inserted "or primary care NHS trust";

(b) in paragraph (3)-


(i) after the words "Health Board" in the first place where they occur there is inserted "or primary care NHS trust";

(ii) in sub-paragraphs (a), (b) and (c)(i) for the words "to the Health Board in whose area" there is substituted "to the appropriate Health Board or primary care NHS trust where";



(c) in paragraph (7) after the words "Health Board" in the first, second, third and fourth places where they occur there is inserted "or primary care NHS trust".

Amendment of regulation 35 of the principal Regulations
     12. In regulation 35 of the principal Regulations (publication of particulars) for the words "its area" there is substituted "the Health Board's area".

Amendment of Schedule 1 to the principal Regulations
     13. In Schedule 1 to the principal Regulations (terms of service)-

(a) in the following paragraphs, after the words "Health Board" in each place where they occur there is inserted "or primary care NHS trust"-


     paragraph 2 (incorporation of provisions of Regulations);

     paragraph 4 (a continuing care arrangement);

     paragraph 5 (a capitation arrangement);

     paragraph 8 (duration and extension of a continuing care arrangement);

     paragraph 9 (duration and extension of a capitation arrangement);

     paragraph 11 (termination of a continuing care arrangement or a capitation arrangement);

     paragraph 11A (violent patients)[9];

     paragraph 13 (treatment on referral);

     paragraph 15 (care and treatment summaries);

     paragraph 25 (records);

     paragraph 27 (completion of estimate);

     paragraph 31 (information about NHS charges)[10];

     paragraphs 31A and 31B (complaints)[11];

     paragraph 31C (returns)[12];

     paragraph 31D (professional indemnity)[13];

     paragraph 32 (patient information leaflets);

     paragraph 33 (premises etc);



(b) in paragraph 35 (deputies and assistants)-



(i) in sub-paragraph (3) for the words "Health Board for that area" there is substituted "appropriate Health Board or primary care NHS trust";

(ii) in sub-paragraphs (4), (5), (8), (9), (10) and (11) after the words "Health Board" in each place where they occur there is inserted "or primary care NHS trust";



(c) in the following paragraphs, after the word "or" in each place where it occurs there is inserted "primary care"-



     paragraph 39 (attendance);

     paragraph 40 (general anaesthesia);

     paragraph 41 (records);

     paragraph 42 (drugs);

     paragraph 43 (provision of Health Board information leaflets);

     paragraph 44 (termination of services);



(d) in paragraph 43 (provision of Health Board information leaflets) after the words "Health Board" in the first place where they occur and in the heading after those words there is inserted "or primary care NHS trust".

Amendment of Schedule 2 to the principal Regulations
     14. In Schedule 2 to the principal Regulations (application for inclusion in the dental list)-

(a) in paragraph 9 for the words "in the area of the Health Board" there is substituted "in the appropriate part of the Health Board's area";

(b) in paragraph 10(b) and (c) after the words "Health Board's" there is inserted "or primary care NHS trust's".

Amendment of Schedule 6 to the principal Regulations
     15. In Schedule 6 to the principal Regulations (information to be included in Health Board patient information leaflets)-

(a) in the heading after the words "Health Board" there is inserted "or primary care NHS trust";

(b) in paragraph 2(a) for the words "its area" there is substituted "the appropriate part of the Health Board's area";

(c) in paragraph 2(b) after "or" there is inserted "primary care".

SUSAN C DEACON
A member of the Scottish Executive

St Andrew's House, Edinburgh
7th September 1999

[2] S.I.1996/177, amended by S.I.1996/841 and 2060, 1998/1663 and 2224 and 1999/724.back

[3] Section 12AA was inserted by the Health Act 1999 (c.8), section 47.back

[4] The definition of "salaried dentist" was amended by S.I.1999/724.back

[5] Paragraph (1A) was inserted by S.I.1999/724.back

[6] To which there are amendments not relevant to these Regulations.back

[7] Regulation 19 was amended by S.I.1999/724.back

[8] Regulation 34A was inserted by S.I.1996/841.back

[9] Paragraph 11A was inserted by S.I.1998/1663.back

[10] Paragraph 31 was substituted by S.I.1996/841 and amended by S.I.1996/2060.back

[11] Paragraphs 31A was inserted by S.I.1996/841 and amended by S.I.1996/2060.back

[12] Paragraph 31C was inserted by S.I.1996/841 and amended by S.I.1996/2060.back

[13] Paragraph 31D was inserted by S.I.1998/1663.back

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