Singapore legislation
Regulation 32
Regulation 32
Collection of specimens
Subregulation 1
For the purposes of the traceability of a specimen that is collected from a patient, a licensee must ensure that —
the personnel who is responsible for collecting the specimen checks and verifies the identity of the patient prior to the collection;
the specimen collected is the correct specimen for the type of test that is ordered by a requestor to be carried out for the patient; and
the container containing the specimen is labelled accurately and clearly with —
a name and reference number unique to the patient;
the site from which the specimen is collected, where relevant; and
where the test ordered by a requestor to be carried out for the patient requires the collection of more than one specimen, the sequence in which the specimen is collected.
Subregulation 2
A licensee must —
implement a system where all relevant specimen collection information may be traced from an identifier on the container containing the specimen; or
include all relevant specimen collection information on the label on the container containing the specimen.
Subregulation 3
In this regulation —
Definition
“relevant specimen collection information”, in relation to a specimen, means the following information:
the date and time of the collection of the specimen;
the type of specimen;
Definition
“requestor”, in relation to a patient, means the medical practitioner, dentist or collaborative prescribing practitioner who ordered a test for the patient.