Explanatory note

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.

The Regulations amend regulation 19(1). The matter “Continuing professional development allowances” is substituted for the matter “Postgraduate education allowances” and a new matter, “Clinical audit payments” is to be a determination for the purposes of that regulation.

The Regulations further amend Schedule 1 to the 1992 Regulations, which sets out the terms of service applicable to dentists who are on a Health Authority’s dental list. Three new terms of service are also imposed, so that a dentist must undertake, over successive three year periods, 15 hours of activities involving clinical audit, establish and operate a practice based quality assurance system and make an annual return to the Health Authority in respect of that system.