This means that from 1 April 2010 all existing patients registered with a dentist under a continuing care and capitation arrangement and all new patients registered with a dentist under a continuing care and capitation arrangement will be registered for life (although dentists will continue to be able, if they choose, to take the necessary steps to deregister any patients that they no longer wish to treat under NHS arrangements). Registration arrangements will no longer lapse after a set period. A registration arrangement will, however, come to an end, and continuing care or capitation payments cease, where Practitioner Services have determined that a patient has died, moved out of the country or registered with another dentist in Scotland.