Qualifications, skills and competencies of Clinical Governance Officer
5.—(1) For the purposes of section 24(3)(b) of the Act, a licensee must appoint as a Clinical Governance Officer of a blood banking service a fully registered medical practitioner with —
(a)
either of the following qualifications, skills and competencies:
(i)
registration under section 22 of the Medical Registration Act 1997 as a specialist in the branch of haematology;
(ii)
both of the following:
(A)
registration under section 22 of the Medical Registration Act 1997 as a specialist in the branch of pathology;
(B)
training in transfusion medicine; and
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(b)
at least 5 years of work experience in Singapore in —
(i)
transfusion medicine —
(A)
in relation to the provision of an acute hospital service by a person authorised by a licence to do; or
(B)
in any private hospital licensed under the repealed Act before 26 June 2023, where the private hospital was licensed as a medical hospital, a surgical hospital or both; or
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(ii)
any other area relevant to the provision of a blood banking service with any licensee.
(2) In paragraph (1), “fully registered medical practitioner” has the meaning given by section 2 of the Medical Registration Act 1997.