Legislation – The National Health Service (Coronavirus) (Charges and Further Amendments Relating to the Provision of Primary Care Services During a Pandemic etc.) Regulations 2020
Amendment of the National Health Service (General Dental Services Contracts) Regulations 20059.
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“(8)
Where, by virtue of this paragraph, a person is required to include anything in a treatment plan or a summary, or to ensure a patient signs a treatment plan, but as a consequence of a disease being, or in anticipation of a disease being imminently—
(a)
pandemic; and
(b)
a serious risk or potentially a serious risk to human health,
the Secretary of State has made an announcement to the effect that, in order to assist in the management of the serious risk or potentially serious risk to human health, for the period specified in the announcement, that requirement is to be waived or modified in the manner specified in the announcement, that requirement is waived or is as modified in the specified manner for the specified period.
(9)
Modifications under sub-paragraph (8) may include modifications imposing requirements on a person other than the person who, but for the announcement, would be required to include anything in a treatment plan or a summary or to ensure a patient signs a treatment plan.
(10)
An announcement under sub-paragraph (8) may be withdrawn or amended at any time.”.