(This note is not part of the Regulations.)
These Regulations further amend the Health and Personal Social Services General Dental Services Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1993 (“the principal Regulations”) which regulate the terms on which general dental services are provided under the Health and Personal Social Services (Northern Ireland) Order 1972.
The Regulations amend regulation 19(1). The matter “Continuing professional development allowances” is substituted for the matter “Postgraduate education allowances” and a new matter, “Clinical audit payments” is to be a determination for the purposes of that regulation.
The Regulations further amend Schedule 2 to the principal Regulations, which sets out the terms of service applicable to dentists who are on the dental list. For paragraph 17 of that Schedule, which deals with occasional treatment, a new paragraph is substituted which enables a greater range of occasional treatments to be provided. Three new terms of service are also imposed, so that a dentist must undertake, over successive three year periods, 15 hours of activities involving clinical audit, establish and operate a practice based quality assurance system and make an annual return to the Health and Social Services Board in respect of that system.