Part 1: Health Service in England: Integration, Collaboration and Other Changes Integrated Care Boards: Functions Schedule 3: Conferral of primary care functions on integrated care boards etc. Dental services
New section 99 requires integrated care boards to make the necessary arrangements to secure the provision of primary dental services to meet the reasonable requirements of the persons for whom it is responsible (as defined in section 14Z31 and any other people who may be prescribed in regulations). Regulations under section 98C may set out how primary dental services should be defined for the purposes of this Act. Such regulations would be subject to the negative procedure
	Section 99A provides a general power for integrated care boards and NHS England to make arrangements for the provision of primary dental services to fulfil their section 99 and section 3B(1) obligations respectively.
	When referring to dental services in the context of NHS England’s section 3B(1) responsibilities, it includes both primary and secondary dental services. This is different from primary medical and primary ophthalmic services because section 3B(1) only refers to those services provided in a primary care setting.
	New section 99B stipulates that each integrated care board and NHS England must publish information about such matters as may be prescribed in relation to the primary dental services provided under this Act.
	New section 114A allows the Secretary of State to direct NHS England to exercise any of the Secretary of State’s functions relating to the provision of primary dental services.
	New section 114B allows NHS England to direct an integrated care board about the exercise by it of any of its functions under Part 5 (Dental Services) of NHS Act 2006.