The General Dental Services and Personal Dental Services Transitional and Consequential Provisions (Wales) Order 2006

Violent patients

26.  Where—

(a)on or before 31 March 2006, a pilot patient (within the meaning of direction 2 of the PDS Directions) has committed an act of violence in the circumstances specified in the pilot scheme agreement which give effect to direction 8(2)(a) of the PDS Directions;

(b)the pilot scheme provider has notified the Local Health Board that he or she wishes the provision of personal dental services for that pilot patient to be terminated immediately; and

(c)the Local Health Board has not informed the person concerned on or before 31 March 2006 that the pilot scheme provider wishes the provision of personal dental services for that pilot patient to be terminated,

the Local Health Board will take such steps to inform that person that the relevant pilot scheme provider does not wish to provide, on or after 1 April 2006, primary dental services to that person under the personal dental services agreement or the general dental services contract.