{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-health-service-general-dental-services-contracts-regulations-2005/schedule-3/paragraph-80",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-health-service-general-dental-services-contracts-regulations-2005/schedule-3/paragraph-80.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2005/3361",
  "legislation_title": "The National Health Service (General Dental Services Contracts) Regulations 2005",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-health-service-general-dental-services-contracts-regulations-2005",
  "path": "schedule/3/paragraph/80",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "80",
  "heading": "Quality assurance system",
  "text": "(1) The contractor shall establish and operate a practice based quality assurance system which is applicable to all the persons specified in sub-paragraph (2).\n(2) The specified persons are—\n(a) any dental practitioner who performs services under the contract; and\n(b) any other person employed or engaged by the contractor to perform or assist in the performance of services under the contract.\n(3) A contractor shall ensure that in respect of its practice based quality assurance system, it has nominated a person (who need not be connected with the contractor's practice) to be responsible for operating that system.\n(4) In this paragraph, “a practice based quality assurance system” means one which comprises a system to ensure that—\n(a) effective measures of infection control are used;\n(b) all legal requirements relating to health and safety in the workplace are satisfied;\n(c) all legal requirements relating to radiological protection are satisfied; and\n(d) any requirements of the General Dental Council in respect of the continuing professional development of dental practitioners are satisfied.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2005/3361/schedule/3/paragraph/80",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T04:41:21.795162+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}