# The National Health Service (General Dental Services) Regulations 1992, Regulation 4: Dental list


(1) An FHSA shall prepare a list, to be called the dental list, of dentists who, pursuant to the provisions of regulation 5, have undertaken to provide general dental services in its locality and who are not disqualified for inclusion by virtue of the provisions of—
(a) section 36(2), 47(1) or 48(b) of the Act; or
(b) section 8(2) of the Health and Medicines Act 1988; or
(c) regulation 7 (restrictions on the right to be included in a dental list).
(2) The dental list shall, in addition to containing the name of a dentist,—
(a) contain—
(i) the addresses of all his practice premises and, where he provides general dental services at a mobile surgery only, the address at which correspon dence in connection with such provision may be sent to him;
(ii) particulars of the days and hours when he is or will usually be in attendance at the practice premises for the provision of general dental services and, in the case of any mobile surgery, particulars of the places visited regularly by him and the times of those visits;
(iii) the name of any other dentist in association with whom he provides general dental services at his practice premises;
(iv) the date of his registration as a dental practitioner in the register kept under section 14 of the Dentists Act 1984, particulars of the dental qualifica tion which entitled him to be so registered, including the date on which the qualification was awarded, and particulars of any other dental qualification held by him which is registrable pursuant to section 19(1)(c) of the Dentists Act 1984; and
(b) indicate—
(i) whether the dentist provides only orthodontic treatment; and
(ii) whether there is access to the dental surgery without the use of stairs.
(3) The dental list may, provided that the dentist consents to their inclusion, also give particulars of any languages, other than English, spoken by the dentist.
(4) The dental list may, if an FHSA thinks fit, be so arranged as to show the part of the locality in which each dentist has undertaken to provide general dental services.
(5) A dentist whose name is included in the dental list of an FHSA shall notify the FHSA of any occurrence requiring an alteration to the information recorded in relation to him in the dental list within 14 days of the date of such occurrence.
(6) An FHSA shall—
(a) send to the Board and the Local Dental Committee a copy of its dental list; and
(b) notify the Board and the Local Dental Committee of any alteration to its dental list within 7 days of the date on which the alteration is made.
(7) Subject to paragraph (9), an FHSA shall—
(a) send, if requested to do so, a copy of the dental list to—
(i) the Secretary of State;
(ii) the Local Medical Committee;
(iii) the Local Pharmaceutical Committee;
(iv) the relevant Regional Health Authority;
(v) a District Health Authority any part of the district of which is in the locality of the FHSA;
(vi) the Board of Governors of the Eastman Dental Hospital;
(vii) an NHS Trust the functions of which consist of or include the management of a hospital which is situated in the locality of the FHSA; and
(viii) a person whose name is included in the list maintained by the FHSA pursuant to section 42(2)(a) of the Act; and
(b) in that event, notify them, at intervals of not less than 3 months, of any alterations made to the dental list.
(8) An FHSA shall, if necessary, prepare an updated dental list each year and send a copy—
(a) to the Board and the Local Dental Committee; and
(b) subject to paragraph (9), to any person mentioned in paragraph (7)(a) who under that paragraph requested a copy of the dental list.
(9) Where an FHSA considers that only parts of, or only some of the alterations to, the dental list are likely to concern any person mentioned in paragraph (7)(a), the FHSA may instead of sending them a copy of the list or notifying them of all those alterations send that person a copy only of those parts or, as the case may be, notify him only of those alterations.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1992/661/regulation/4 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/national-health-service-general-dental-services-regulations-1992/regulation-4
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