The National Health Service (General Dental Services) (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 1993
These Regulations further amend the National Health Service (General Dental Services) (Scotland) Regulations 1974 by providing that a Health Board shall not include any dentist in its dental list unless he has a vocational training number. A vocational training number will be allocated to an applicant dentist by a Special Health Board called the Scottish Council for Postgraduate Medical and Dental Education where the Council is satisfied that the applicant has completed a period of vocational training, or has acquired clinical dental experience or training which may be regarded as the equivalent of such training, or is within one of the specified categories of exemption from the vocational training requirements. The Regulations provide for a right of appeal and appeal procedures in a case where the Council determines not to allocate a vocational training number. The right of appeal is to the body specified in and set up by these Regulations.