Singapore legislation

Schedule 1

Licensable healthcare services

FIRST SCHEDULESections 3(1) and 56(4)Licensable healthcare services

1. For the purposes of the definition of “licensable healthcare service” in section 3, “licensable healthcare service” means any of the following healthcare services:

(a)

Clinical Support Services:

(i)

Clinical laboratory service;

(ii)

Tissue banking service;

(iii)

Blood banking service;

(iv)

Radiological laboratory service;

(b)

Specified Services:

(i)

Nuclear medicine imaging and assay service.

2. In this Schedule and the Second Schedule —“blood banking service” means a service relating to blood and blood products for therapeutic transfusion, comprising the following:

(a)

collection of blood and blood products;

(b)

testing, processing, distribution and storage of blood and blood products;“clinical laboratory service” means the examination or testing of any matter derived from the body of any individual for the purpose of —

(a)

assessing the health, condition or genetic predisposition of that individual or any other individual;

(b)

predicting or providing a prognosis of the health or medical condition of that individual or any other individual;

(c)

diagnosing a disease, disability or condition or an injury of the body or mind of that individual or any other individual;

(d)

determining the intervention to be taken, or the effect of any intervention taken, of a disease, disability or condition or an injury of the body or mind of an individual;

(e)

ascertaining the cause of death of that individual or any other individual, or the result of a medical or surgical treatment given to that individual or any other individual; or

(f)

assessing the health, condition or suitability of any human biological material that is used, or is intended to be used, in relation to any healthcare service;“nuclear medicine imaging and assay service” means a service comprising the following:

(a)

the use of radioactive substances (including radionuclides) for the purposes of medical diagnosis or monitoring the effects of therapy;

(b)

laboratory procedures that involve the use of radioactive substances, including radionuclides;“radiological laboratory service” means the use of ionising or non‑ionising radiation for any of the following purposes:

(a)

examination of the body, or any matter derived from the body, of an individual;

(b)

assessment of the health or condition of an individual;

(c)

observation, diagnosis and intervention of a disease, disability or condition or an injury of the body or mind of an individual;

(d)

provision of care for an individual;

(e)

determining, predicting or providing a prognosis of the health or condition of an individual;“tissue banking service” means the acquisition, processing and storage of biological material derived or obtained from the body of an individual, which is distributed for subsequent use in the body of the same or another individual, and includes the screening of any donor, but does not include any blood banking service.

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