The National Health Service (Personal Dental Services Agreements) (Wales) Regulations 2006

2.  As if for paragraph 3, there were substituted the following—

“Violent patients

3.— (1) Where—

(a) a patient of the contractor has committed an act of violence or behaved in such a way against any of the persons specified in sub-paragraph (2) as a consequence of which that person has feared for his or her safety; and

(b) the contractor has reported the incident to the police,

the Local Health Board may notify that patient that it will no longer provide services to him or her under the agreement.

(2) The persons referred to in sub-paragraph (1) are—

(a) any member of the Local Health Board’s staff;

(b) a person engaged by the Local Health Board to perform or assist in the performance of services under the agreement; or

(c) any other person present—

(i) on the practice premises, or

(ii) in the place where services were provided to the patient under the agreement.”.