{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-health-service-personal-dental-services-agreements-regulations-2005/schedule-3/paragraph-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-health-service-personal-dental-services-agreements-regulations-2005/schedule-3/paragraph-2.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2005/3373",
  "legislation_title": "The National Health Service (Personal Dental Services Agreements) Regulations 2005",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-health-service-personal-dental-services-agreements-regulations-2005",
  "path": "schedule/3/paragraph/2",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Patient preference of practitioner",
  "text": "(1) Where the contractor has agreed to provide services to a patient, it shall—\n(a) notify the patient (or, in the case of a child or incapable adult, the person who made the application on their behalf) of the patient's right to express a preference to receive services from a particular performer; and\n(b) record in writing any such preference expressed by or on behalf of the patient.\n(2) The contractor shall endeavour to comply with any reasonable preference expressed under sub-paragraph (1) but need not do so if the preferred performer—\n(a) has reasonable grounds for refusing to provide services to the patient; or\n(b) does not routinely perform the services required by the patient within the practice.\n(3) This paragraph does not apply—\n(a) where the contractor is providing mandatory or additional services in a secure and detained estate; or\n(b) in any event to dental public health services.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in Sch. 3 para. 2(3)(a) substituted (23.6.2026) by The National Health Service (Primary Dental Services and Dental Charges) (Amendment) (No. 2) Regulations 2026 (S.I. 2026/554), regs. 1(2), 13(2)(c)(ii)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2005/3373/schedule/3/paragraph/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T04:41:17.604395+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."
}