The General Dental Services, Personal Dental Services and Abolition of the Dental Practice Board Transitional and Consequential Provisions Order 2006

Patient information leaflet

7.—(1) This article applies where a relevant dental practitioner had compiled a patient information leaflet which met the requirements of paragraph 32 of Schedule 1 and Schedule 5 to the 1992 Regulations(1) on 31st March 2006 and that leaflet was, on that date, available to patients.

(2) Subject to paragraph (3), the patient information leaflet made available to patients on or after 1st April 2006 by the succeeding contractor need not, until 1st August 2006, include all the information specified in the terms of—

(a) the general dental services contract which give effect to Schedule 4 to the GDS Contracts Regulations; or

(b) the personal dental services agreement which give effect to Schedule 4 to the PDS Agreements Regulations.

(3) The succeeding contractor must from the date of the commencement of services under the general dental services contract or the personal dental services agreement make available to patients in written form the information specified in paragraph (4) together with the patient information leaflet referred to in paragraph (1).

(4) The information referred to in paragraph (3) is information regarding—

(a) the services available under the general dental services contract or the personal dental services agreement;

(b) the normal surgery days and hours of the practice;

(c) the arrangements for dental services for the days and hours that fall outside normal surgery days and hours (whether or not provided by the contractor) and how the patient may contact such services;

(d) if the services in sub-paragraph (c) are not provided by the contractor, the fact that the Primary Care Trust referred to in sub-paragraph (g) is responsible for commissioning the services;

(e) how patients may make a complaint or comment on the provision of services;

(f) the telephone number of NHS Direct and details of NHS Direct online; and

(g) the name, postal and website address and telephone number of the Primary Care Trust which is a party to the contract or agreement and from whom details of primary dental services in the area may be obtained.

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Relevant amending instruments are S.I. 2001/2421 and 2002/2469.