General Dental Services (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2013

Explanatory note

Reproduced verbatim from the instrument as published on legislation.gov.uk (Crown Copyright, Open Government Licence v3.0). The note is prepared by the responsible government department and is not part of the instrument itself.

These Regulations amend the General Dental Services Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1993 “the GDS Regulations” to give effect to Directive 2011/24/ EU of the European Parliament and of the Council of 9th March 2011 on the application of patients’ rights in cross-border healthcare “the Directive”.

Regulation 2 amends the interpretation provisions of the GDS Regulations.

Regulation 3 amends the list of those patients entitled to seek occasional treatment to include a patient seeking treatment under the Directive “a visiting patient”.

Regulation 4 amends the Terms of Service for all dentists set out in Schedule 2 to the GDS Regulations so that a dentist treating a visiting patient under the occasional treatment provisions supplies or prescribes drugs under a private arrangement.

Regulation 5 amends the Terms of Service for all dentists set out in Schedule 2 to the GDS Regulations so that a dentist is not required to carry out any domiciliary visit outside Northern Ireland.