Healthcare Services Act 2020 |
Healthcare Services (Emergency Ambulance Service and Medical Transport Service) Regulations 2022 |
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Citation and commencement |
1. These Regulations are the Healthcare Services (Emergency Ambulance Service and Medical Transport Service) Regulations 2022 and come into operation on 3 January 2022 at 8 a.m. |
Definitions |
2. In these Regulations, unless the context otherwise requires —
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Application of Regulations |
4. [Deleted by S 397/2023 wef 26/06/2023] |
General obligations of applicable licensees |
5. A licensee is responsible, in accordance with the requirements in these Regulations, for the following:
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Qualifications, skills and competencies of Clinical Governance Officer |
6.—(1) For the purposes of section 24(3)(b) of the Act, a suitably qualified individual to be appointed a Clinical Governance Officer for an emergency ambulance service is one who has all of the following qualifications, skills and competencies:
[S 836/2023 wef 18/12/2023]
[S 836/2023 wef 18/12/2023] |
Disqualifications for Clinical Governance Officer |
7.—(1) A licensee must not appoint as a Clinical Governance Officer an individual who has been subject to any disciplinary order in the 3 years preceding the individual’s appointment.
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Quality assurance and audit |
8.—(1) A licensee must implement and maintain a system for quality assurance and audit.
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Service crew |
9.—(1) A licensee must ensure that a service crew that complies with the requirements in this regulation is deployed to each approved emergency ambulance or approved medical transport, as the case may be. [S 397/2023 wef 26/06/2023]
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Certifications and training of service crew |
10.—(1) A licensee must ensure that, in relation to each service crew member deployed to any approved emergency ambulance or approved medical transport, as the case may be —
[S 397/2023 wef 26/06/2023]
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Scope of practice of ambulance paramedics and emergency medical technicians |
11.—(1) A licensee must ensure that an ambulance paramedic or emergency medical technician deployed to any approved emergency ambulance or approved medical transport (as the case may be) does not carry out any act that may be lawfully carried out only by a specified healthcare professional. [S 397/2023 wef 26/06/2023]
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Dimensions of patient compartment of approved emergency ambulances and approved medical transports |
11A.—(1) A licensee must ensure that the patient compartment of each approved emergency ambulance or approved medical transport (as the case may be) is not less than 2.9 metres in length by 1.5 metres in width by 1.3 metres in height.
[S 397/2023 wef 26/06/2023] |
Equipment for approved emergency ambulances and approved medical transports |
12.—(1) A licensee must ensure that —
[S 397/2023 wef 26/06/2023] |
Additional requirements for approved emergency ambulances |
13.—(1) An emergency ambulance service licensee must ensure that each approved emergency ambulance bears the words “EMERGENCY AMBULANCE” on the front, rear and both sides of the approved emergency ambulance. [S 397/2023 wef 26/06/2023]
[S 397/2023 wef 26/06/2023] |
Additional requirements for approved medical transports |
14.—(1) A medical transport service licensee must ensure that each approved medical transport bears the words “MEDICAL TRANSPORT” on the front, rear and both sides of the approved medical transport. [S 397/2023 wef 26/06/2023]
[S 397/2023 wef 26/06/2023] |
Assessment, management and care of patients |
15.—(1) A licensee must take appropriate measures, including the development and implementation of appropriate written care protocols —
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Conveyance of patients |
16.—(1) A licensee must ensure that the crew leader of the service crew deployed to an approved emergency ambulance or approved medical transport is positioned next to a patient at all times while the patient is being conveyed, such that the crew leader can readily monitor the condition of the patient. [S 397/2023 wef 26/06/2023]
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Medicines and medical supplies and equipment |
17.—(1) A licensee must ensure that —
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Price transparency |
18.—(1) A licensee must ensure that the charges payable for the components of an applicable service provided by the licensee, and any higher charges for any component of the applicable service payable by any class of patient, are displayed or made available —
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Itemisation of bill |
19.—(1) A bill of the fees charged by a licensee for an applicable service provided by the licensee must contain the fees (including any zero charge) for each of the following components:
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Infection control |
20. In addition to regulation 41 of the General Regulations, a licensee must —
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Outsourcing prohibited |
21. A licensee must not appoint any person to provide, on the licensee’s behalf, the applicable service that the licensee is authorised under a licence to provide or any aspect of the applicable service. |
Offence |
22.—(1) Any person who contravenes regulation 8(1), 11(1), 12(1), 15(1), 16(1) or (6), 17(1) or (3), 20 or 21 shall be guilty of an offence.
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Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Health, Singapore. |
[MH 78:44/1; AG/LEGIS/SL/122E/2020/13 Vol. 1] |