– Cost of relevant calls
- Ensure practice phone numbers are no more expensive than geographic numbers
Welsh Statutory Instrument
2006
United Kingdom
The National Health Service (Personal Dental Services Agreements) (Wales) Regulations 2006
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7 compliance obligations
What this Act requires
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Schedules
Welsh Language
- Comply with Welsh language requirements for dental services
Notification of a course of treatment, orthodontic course of treatment etc.
- Notify Relevant Body of completed NHS dental treatments within 2 months
The contractor must establish and operate arrangements which meet the...
- Set up a complaints handling system meeting Welsh NHS regulations
Complaints received prior to 1 April 2011
- Operate a complaints procedure for pre-2011 complaints and inform patients about it
Further requirements for complaints procedures
- Implement a compliant complaints procedure for dental services
Mandatory services
- Provide mandatory dental services as agreed
Browse 113 other Schedules — structural / supplementary
Provision of advanced mandatory services, domiciliary services and sedation services by the contractor
Referral services
Sedation services
Patients to whom orthodontic services may be provided
Orthodontic course of treatment
Orthodontic treatment plans
Monitoring outcomes
Completion of orthodontic courses of treatment
(1) Where the contractor provides an orthodontic course of treatment...
Persons to whom mandatory services or additional services are to be provided
Referral to another contractor, a hospital or other relevant service provider for advanced mandatory, domiciliary or sedation services
Mixing of services provided under the agreement with private services
Repair or replacement of restorations
Premises, facilities and equipment
Telephone services
National Institute for Clinical Excellence guidance
Infection control
Treatment under general anaesthesia: prohibition
General
Supply of drugs
Patient preference of practitioner
Issue of prescription forms
Excessive prescribing
Dental practitioners
Dental care professionals
Performers: further requirements
Conditions for employment and engagement: dental practitioners performing dental services
Conditions for employment and engagement: persons performing dental services other than dental practitioners
Conditions for employment and engagement: all persons performing dental services
Conditions for employment or engagement: persons assisting in the provision of services under the agreement
Training
Violent patients
Level of skill
Appraisal and assessment
Sub-contracting of clinical matters
Patient records
Confidentiality of personal data
Patient information
Provision of and access to information: the Relevant Body
Requests for information from Community Health Councils
Inquiries about prescriptions and referrals
Patients who refuse to pay NHS charges prior to the commencement of, or during, treatment
Annual report and review
Notifications to the Relevant Body
Notice provisions specific to an agreement with a qualifying body
Notifications to patients following a variation of the agreement
Entry and inspection by the Relevant Body
Entry and inspection by members of Community Health Councils
Entry and inspection by the Welsh Ministers
Making of complaints
Period for making complaints
Irrevocable breakdown in relationship between contractor and patient
Co-operation with investigations
Provision of information
Local resolution of agreement disputes
Dispute resolution: non-NHS contracts
NHS dispute resolution procedure
Determination of dispute
Interpretation of Part 7
Mid-year reviews
Action the Relevant Body can take following a mid-year review
(1) Subject to paragraph 32(3), no amendment or variation will...
Variation of an agreement: activity under the agreement
Termination by agreement
Termination on the death of an individual
Termination by the contractor
Late payment notices
Termination by the Relevant Body: general provisions
Termination by the Relevant Body: notice
Termination by the Relevant Body for the provision of untrue etc. information
Termination by the Relevant Body on grounds of suitability etc
Course of treatment
Termination by the Relevant Body: patient safety and material financial loss
Termination by the Relevant Body: remedial notices and breach notices
Termination by the Relevant Body: additional provisions specific to contracts with qualifying bodies
Agreement sanctions
Agreement sanctions and the NHS dispute resolution procedure
Termination and the NHS dispute resolution procedure
Evidence of exemption under the Act
Clinical governance arrangements
Quality assurance system
Insurance: negligent performance
Treatment plans
Public liability insurance
Gifts
Compliance with legislation and guidance
Third party rights
Signing of documents
Completion of courses of treatment
A practice leaflet will include—
The rights of a patient to express a preference of...
The services available under the agreement.
The normal surgery days and hours of the practice.
The arrangements for the dental hours and days that fall...
If the services in paragraph 13 are not provided by...
The telephone number of NHS Direct and details of NHS...
How patients may— (1) in respect of complaints made prior...
The rights and responsibilities of the patient, including keeping appointments....
The action that may be taken where a patient is...
Details of who has access to patient information (including information...
In the case of an agreement with a qualifying body—...
The name, postal and website address and telephone number of...
The fact that details of primary dental services in the...
The full name of each person performing services under the...
In the case of each person performing dental services under...
Whether the contractor undertakes the teaching or training of persons...
The address of each of the practice premises.
The contractor’s telephone and fax numbers and the address of...
Whether the practice premises have suitable access for disabled patients...
How to request services as a patient.
Paragraphs 3 and 5 of Schedule 3 will apply as...
As if for paragraph 3, there were substituted the following—...
As if for paragraph 5, there were substituted the following—...
Browse 22 other sections — procedural / definitional / commencement
Title, commencement and application
Interpretation
Conditions: introductory
General conditions relating to all agreements
Additional conditions relating to agreements with qualifying bodies
Reasons
Appeal
Pre-agreement disputes
Health service body status
NHS contracts
Additional services
Agreements: general
Mandatory and advanced mandatory services
Units of orthodontic activity
Under - provision of mandatory or advanced mandatory services, or units of orthodontic activity
Domiciliary services and sedation services
Finance
Fees, charges and financial interests of the contractor
Arrangements on termination
Other contractual terms
Right to a general dental services contract
Commencement of agreement
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