Singapore legislation
Regulation 10
of Healthcare Services (Nuclear Medicine Service) Regulations 2023
Regulation 10
Duties of section leader
Subregulation 1
A licensee must ensure that every section leader appointed in relation to the provision of a nuclear medicine service for an imaging purpose or in vivo assay purpose does all of the following:
assist the relevant Clinical Governance Officer in the day‑to‑day technical management of the service;
supervise, train and guide personnel in the conduct of examinations or performance of in vivo assay procedures, as the case may be;
assess and ensure the competency of personnel deployed to perform tasks in relation to the provision of the nuclear medicine service for an imaging purpose or in vivo assay purpose, as the case may be;
evaluate any equipment before the equipment is used in the provision of the nuclear medicine service for an imaging purpose or in vivo assay purpose, as the case may be;
monitor the performance of all examinations or in vivo assay procedures (as the case may be) conducted or performed, including ensuring the implementation of quality control measures;
establish and review policies and procedures for the safe and effective conduct or performance of all examinations or in vivo assay procedures, as the case may be;
resolve any technical issues that arise from the conduct or performance of any examinations or in vivo assay procedures, as the case may be;
review all service records in relation to all examinations or in vivo assay procedures (as the case may be) conducted or performed.
Subregulation 2
A licensee must ensure that every section leader appointed in relation to the provision of a nuclear medicine service for a therapy purpose does all of the following:
assist the relevant Clinical Governance Officer in the day‑to‑day management of all processes relating to the preparation, dispensing, radiolabelling, compounding and quality control of radiopharmaceuticals (called in this paragraph the applicable processes);
supervise, train and guide personnel in the applicable processes;
assess and ensure the competency of personnel deployed to perform tasks in relation to the preparation, dispensing, radiolabelling, compounding and quality control of radiopharmaceuticals;
evaluate any process relating to the preparation, dispensing, radiolabelling, compounding and quality control of radiopharmaceuticals before the process is used;
monitor the performance of all applicable processes;
establish and review policies and procedures for the safe and effective performance of all applicable processes;
resolve any technical issues that arise from the performance of all applicable processes;
review all service records in relation to the applicable processes.