Question reference: S3W-29520
- Asked by: Michael Matheson, MSP for Falkirk West, Scottish National Party
- Date lodged: 1 December 2009
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Current status: Answered by Shona Robison on 11 December 2009
Question
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S3W-24295 by Nicola Sturgeon on 2 June 2009, how it plans to monitor whether its guidance to dentists is adhered to.
Answer
As part of its inspection procedures NHS boards check to ensure that relevant patient information is displayed within practices.
Checks are also undertaken by Practitioner Services of NHS National Services Scotland, which is responsible for processing and paying dental payment claims, on successive claims submitted within a short timescale for payment for separate courses of treatment in respect of the same patient. Such successive courses of treatment can also be picked up by Practitioner Services as part of checks they undertake on patient record cards and at Scottish Dental Reference Service examinations.