The National Health Service and Public Health (Functions and Miscellaneous Provisions) Regulations 2013

PART 7 E+W Amendments to [F1 NHS England] and Clinical Commissioning Groups (Responsibilities and Standing Rules) Regulations 2012

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

Interpretation of Part 7 E+W

18.  In this Part—

“the Principal Regulations” means [F1 NHS England] and Clinical Commissioning Groups (Responsibilities and Standing Rules) Regulations 2012 M1 .

Marginal Citations

M1 S.I. 2012/2996.

Amendment of regulation 5 of the Principal Regulations E+W

19.  In regulation 5 of the Principal Regulations (interpretation of Part 3)—

(a) after the definition of “emergency services”, insert the following definition—

““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);”M2 ; and

(b) after the definition of “secondary care services”, insert the following definition—

““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;”.

Marginal Citations

M2 S.I. 2005/3361.

Amendment of regulation 10 of the Principal Regulations E+W

20.  In regulation 10 of the Principal Regulations (services for prisoners and other detainees)—

(a) in paragraph (1), for sub-paragraph (a) substitute the following sub-paragraph—

“(a) community services (including mandatory dental services and sedation services);”; and

(b) in paragraph (2)(e), delete the words “(except Ashfield Young Offender Institution)”.