Private Hospitals and Medical Clinics (Amendment) Regulations 2008

No. S 308

Private Hospitals and Medical Clinics Act

(Chapter 248)

Private Hospitals and Medical Clinics (Amendment) Regulations 2008

In exercise of the powers conferred by section 22 of the Private Hospitals and Medical Clinics Act, the Minister for Health hereby makes the following Regulations:

Citation and commencement

1. These Regulations may be cited as the Private Hospitals and Medical Clinics (Amendment) Regulations 2008 and shall come into operation on 1st July 2008.

Amendment of regulation 13

2. Regulation 13 of the Private Hospitals and Medical Clinics Regulations (Rg 1) (referred to in these Regulations as the principal Regulations) is amended by inserting, immediately after the words “the owner”, the words “, or the person having the management or control,”.

Deletion and substitution of regulation 22

3. Regulation 22 of the principal Regulations is deleted and the following regulation substituted therefor:

“Dietetic services

22. The licensee of every private hospital, other than a maternity home, shall ensure that the private hospital employs, or makes arrangements with, a qualified dietician to supervise the dietary aspects of patient care and to ensure that proper dietary requirements are complied with.”.

New Part IVA

4. The principal Regulations are amended by inserting, immediately after regulation 56, the following Part:

“PART IVA

EMERGENCY PREPAREDNESS PLANNING

Emergency response plans and emergency response teams

56A. The licensee of a private hospital shall ensure that the private hospital —

(a)	has established viable emergency response plans covering such aspects, and in relation to such general or specific national medical emergencies, as the Director may specify; and
(b)	has established and equipped an operationally-ready emergency response team that may be called upon by the Director in the event of a national medical emergency to provide emergency response services.

Participation in emergency preparedness exercises

56B. The licensee of a private hospital, medical clinic, clinical laboratory or healthcare establishment shall ensure that the private hospital, medical clinic, clinical laboratory or healthcare establishment, as the case may be —

(a)	participates in such planning, design and conduct of national medical emergency preparedness exercises as may be required by the Director, for the purpose of evaluating the emergency preparedness and response capabilities of the national healthcare system; and
(b)	has drawn up and put in place emergency infection control measures, including isolation strategies, isolation facilities and infection control equipment to control and prevent the spread of infectious diseases.”.

[G.N. Nos. S 223/2003; S 237/2003; S 411/2003]

Made this 9th day of June 2008.

YONG YING-I

Permanent Secretary,
Ministry of Health,
Singapore.

[MH 78:04/4-2 Temp 5; AG/LEG/SL/248/2002/1 Vol. 2]

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