Healthcare Services (Nursing Home Service) Regulations 2023
Table of Contents
Enacting Formula
Part 1 PRELIMINARY
1 Citation and commencement
2 Definitions
3 Application of Regulations
Part 2 LICENSING MATTERS
4 Specified service
5 Prohibited service delivery modes
6 Prerequisites for application for approval of specified service
Part 3 REQUIREMENTS RELATING TO PERSONNEL
7 Qualifications, skills and competencies of Clinical Governance Officer
8 Head of nursing
9 QAC supervisor
10 General requirements relating to personnel
Part 4 APPROVED PERMANENT PREMISES, EQUIPMENT, ETC.
11 Standards for approved permanent premises
12 Equipment, materials and supplies
13 Environment cleaning
14 Backup utilities
15 Notification of addition or removal of beds, etc.
Part 5 REQUIREMENTS RELATING TO PATIENT CARE
Division 1 — General
16 General requirements relating to patient care
17 Staffing requirement
18 Transport of patients
19 Holding of dead bodies of patients
Division 2 — Provision of mandatory services
20 Requirement to provide certain aspects of nursing home service
21 Nursing service
22 Nutrition service
Division 3 — Provision of specified service
23 Prohibition against use of terms "hospice", etc.
24 Provision of hospice service by multidisciplinary palliative team
Division 4 — Provision of other aspects of nursing home service
25 Anaesthesia service
26 Basic dental care
27 Dietetic service
28 Pharmaceutical service
29 Podiatry
30 Psychosocial support
31 Rehabilitative service
32 Conduct of ultrasound imaging
33 Testing of specimen
34 Conduct of simple in vitro diagnostic test
35 Surgical procedure, etc.
36 Essential life‑saving measures must be available
Part 6 INFECTION CONTROL, INCIDENT MANAGEMENT AND EMERGENCY PREPAREDNESS
37 Infection control obligation
38 Emergency management system
Part 7 MISCELLANEOUS
39 Keeping of other records
40 Price transparency
41 Display of charges, etc.
42 Disclosure of approved institution status
43 Financial counselling
44 Offences