Singapore legislation
Regulation 30
of Healthcare Services (Outpatient Dental Service) Regulations 2023
Regulation 30
Requirements for remote provision
Subregulation 1
This regulation applies to a licensee who is approved to provide an outpatient dental service by remote provision.
Subregulation 2
A licensee must not provide the outpatient dental service to a patient by remote provision, except for the following purposes and in compliance with paragraph (3):
for a dentist (who is the licensee’s personnel) to review the patient’s dental condition and, if necessary, prescribe any medicine to the patient, where the patient has previously received treatment or undergone a procedure at any approved permanent premises, temporary premises or approved conveyance of the licensee; (b)for a dentist (who is the licensee’s personnel) to review the patient’s dental condition and, if necessary, prescribe any medicine to the patient to prepare the patient for a dental treatment or procedure or temporarily alleviate any pain or suffering of the patient, where the patient intends to receive the dental treatment or procedure at the licensee’s approved permanent premises, temporary premises or approved conveyance.
Subregulation 3
Except as provided in paragraph (4), a licensee must take reasonable measures to ensure that a patient who receives an outpatient dental service by remote provision is not prescribed any drug that is specified in the First Schedule to the Misuse of Drugs Act 1973 in the course of the remote provision.
Subregulation 4
A dentist who is the licensee’s personnel may in the course of the remote provision prescribe a drug mentioned in paragraph (3) for the patient if the dentist has previously conducted a physical examination on the patient and assessed that the patient requires that drug.