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

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There are currently no known outstanding effects for the The National Health Service (Personal Dental Services Agreements) (Wales) Regulations 2006, Paragraph 11. Help about Changes to Legislation

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11.—(1) Subject to sub-paragraph (2) and the requirements in paragraphs 2 (referral services) and 6 (orthodontic treatment plans) of Schedule 1 and paragraph 8(1)(g) of this Schedule, a contractor may, with the consent of the patient, provide privately any part of a course of treatment or orthodontic course of treatment for that patient, including in circumstances where that patient has been referred to the contractor for a referral service.

(2) A contractor may—

(a)not provide privately or under the agreement treatment that involves the administration of general anaesthesia or the provision of sedation; and

(b)in the case of an orthodontic course of treatment provide—

(i)the case assessment wholly privately or wholly under the agreement; and

(ii)the orthodontic treatment wholly privately or wholly under the agreement.

(3) A contractor will not, with a view to obtaining the agreement of a patient to undergo services privately—

(a)advise a patient that the services which are necessary in his or her case are not available from the contractor under the agreement; or

(b)seek to mislead the patient about the quality of the services available under the agreement.

(4) In sub-paragraph (2)(a), “provision of sedation” means the provision of one or more drugs to a patient in order to produce a state of depression of the central nervous system to enable treatment to be carried out.

Commencement Information

I1Sch. 3 para. 11 in force at 1.3.2006, see reg. 1(1)

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