Regulation 2 Amendment of the National Health Service (General Dental Services) Regulations 1973

(1)

The National Health Service (General Dental Services) Regulations 1973^f1 shall be amended in accordance with the following paragraphs of this regulation.

(2)

In regulation 26D (amount and time of payments in consequence of suspension):–

(a)

in paragraph (1)(a)(i) for “£2,243” there is substituted “£2,478”;

(b)

in paragraph (1)(a)(ii) for “£1,121” there is substituted “£1,239”;

(c)

in paragraph (1)(b)(i) for “£1,121” there is substituted “£1,239”;

(d)

in paragraph (1)(b)(ii) for “£2,243” there is substituted “£2,478”; and

(e)

in paragraph (2) for “£117,689” in both places where it occurs there is substituted “£126,755”.

(3)

In paragraph 16(2) of Schedule 1 (terms of service for dentists) for head (j) there is substituted the following head:–

“(j)

palliative treatment that is immediately necessary (including the treatment of sensitive cementum or dentine, the stoning and smoothing of the surface of a tooth, or the provision of a temporary crown);”.

Annotations

Footnotes

f1: S.I. 1973/1468; relevant amending instruments are S.I. 1987/736 and 1512, 1989/613, 1990/1638 and 1938. By section 2(1) of the National Health Service and Community Care Act 1990 (c. 19), the references in the Regulations to a Family Practitioner Committee are to be construed as references to a Family Health Services Authority.