The National Health Service Commissioning Board and Clinical Commissioning Groups (Responsibilities and Standing Rules) Regulations 2012

Interpretation of Part 3 E+W

5.  In this Part—

“Armed Forces Compensation Scheme” means the Armed Forces and Reserve Forces Compensation Scheme 2011 set out in the Armed Forces and Reserve Forces (Compensation Scheme) Order 2011 M1 ;

“community dental services” means dental services provided as part of the health service other than—

(a)

emergency services,

(b)

dental services provided pursuant to arrangements made by [F1 NHS England] under Part 5 of the 2006 Act, or

(c)

the dental services specified in Schedule 2;

“community services” means services provided as part of the health service other than—

(a)

emergency services,

(b)

primary care services,

(c)

secondary care services, or

(d)

the services specified in Schedule 4;

“Defence Medical Services” means medical services provided by—

(a)

the Ministry of Defence including the Surgeon General's organisation,

(b)

other elements of the Joint Forces Command, and

(c)

the three single Service medical organisations M2 ;

“emergency services” means ambulance services and accident and emergency services provided as part of the health service, whether provided at a hospital accident or emergency department, a minor injuries unit, a walk-in centre or elsewhere;

[F2 “mandatory dental services” means dental services which are equivalent in nature to services which must be provided under a general dental services contract by virtue of provision in regulation 14 of the National Health Services (General Dental Services Contracts) Regulations 2005 (mandatory services);]

“secondary care services” means services provided as part of the health service in a hospital setting, or by those working in or based in a hospital setting, other than emergency services, primary care services or the services specified in Schedule 4;

[F3 “sedation services” means a course of treatment provided to a patient in connection with the provision to that patient of mandatory dental services during which the provider of that treatment administers one or more drugs to the patient which produce a state of depression of the central nervous system to enable treatment to be carried out, and during and in respect of that period of sedation—

(a)

the drugs and techniques used to provide the sedation are deployed by the provider of the treatment in a manner that ensures loss of consciousness is rendered unlikely; and

(b)

verbal contact with the patient is maintained in so far as is reasonably possible;]

“veteran” means any person who has served for at least one day in one of the armed forces or Merchant Navy seafarers and fishermen who have served in a vessel at a time when it was operated to facilitate military operations by the armed forces.

Textual Amendments

F1 Words in Regulations substituted (6.11.2023) by The Health and Care Act 2022 (Further Consequential Amendments) (No. 2) Regulations 2023 (S.I. 2023/1071), reg. 1(1), Sch. para. 1

F2 Words in reg. 5 inserted (1.4.2013) by The National Health Service and Public Health (Functions and Miscellaneous Provisions) Regulations 2013 (S.I. 2013/261), regs. 1(1), 19(a)

F3 Words in reg. 5 inserted (1.4.2013) by The National Health Service and Public Health (Functions and Miscellaneous Provisions) Regulations 2013 (S.I. 2013/261), regs. 1(1), 19(b)

Marginal Citations

M1 S.I. 2011/517.

M2 The three single Service organisations referred to are Royal Navy Medical Services, Army Medical Services and RAF Medical Services.