Posts from Practitioner and Counter Fraud Services
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Orthodontic retainers
It's a regulatory requirement that orthodontic retention proposals be included in prior approval submissions - read on to find out what you need to do.
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Dental practice action - required update for public certificates
There are some changes coming for public certificates for dental practices (renewing ePractitioner verification certificates for patient search) which need to be carried out by practices by 13 October 2020. After this date, if the new certificate has not been installed on local practice management systems, practices will no longer be able to retrieve patient details in response to a patient details request.
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Revised funding package for independent dental practices
An update on funding for independent dental practices in the wake of the COVID-19 outbreak.
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Scottish Government Health and Social Care Directorates issue PCA(O)(2020)5
The Scottish Government have issued PCA(O)(2020)5 detailing information on providing emergency or essential community eye care during coronavirus (COVID-19) social distancing measures, clarifying aspects of the financial support measures introduced in PCA(O)2020(4) and updating on emergency dispensing.
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Scottish Government Health and Social Care Directorates issue PCA(O)(2020)4
The Scottish Government have issued PCA(O)(2020)4 detailing the suspension of all routine community eye care services as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, the move to providing only emergency and essential eye care and financial measures to help support community optometry practices.
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Scottish Government Health and Social Care Directorates issue PCA(D)(2020)6
The Scottish Government have issued PCA(D)(2020)6 detailing contingency measures to preserve the integrity of General Dental Services (GDS) as a result of service disruption due to the coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak. The PCA also provides guidance to independent contractors providing GDS.
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COVID-19 – Signing of GP17 forms
Information for dental professionals regarding signing of GP17 forms during coronavirus.
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Scottish Government Health and Social Care Directorates issue PCA(O)2020(3)
The Scottish Government Health and Social Care Directorates have issued general ophthalmic services PCA(O)2020(3) - COVID-19: Domiciliary Eyecare Services and Practice Inspections.
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Update on eDental payment and prior approval modernisation project - January 2020
Our monthly update on the project to modernise payment and prior approvals as part of the eDental programme is now available.
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Update on eDental payment and prior approval modernisation project - December 2019
Our monthly update on the project to modernise payment and prior approvals as part of the eDental programme is now available.