Singapore legislation
Regulation 12
of Healthcare Services (Nuclear Medicine Service) Regulations 2023
Regulation 12
Specific personnel
Subregulation 1
A licensee must —
employ or engage at least one individual who is a diagnostic radiographer, nuclear medicine technologist or radiation therapist (called in this paragraph the relevant individual); and
ensure that the relevant individual, or where 2 or more relevant individuals are employed or engaged, at least one such individual, has at least 3 years of work experience in providing a nuclear medicine service.
Subregulation 2
A licensee must —
employ or engage at least one medical physicist; and
ensure that the medical physicist, or where 2 or more medical physicists are employed or engaged, at least one such individual, has at least 3 years of work experience in providing a nuclear medicine service.
Subregulation 3
A licensee must employ or engage at least one registered nurse who is assessed —
by a Clinical Governance Officer to have appropriate competency in providing patient care in relation to the provision of a nuclear medicine service; and
by any of the following persons appointed by the licensee to have appropriate competency in radiation safety:
a medical physicist;
a nuclear medicine physician who is registered under section 20(1) or (2) of the Medical Registration Act 1997 as a fully registered medical practitioner;
a radiation safety officer.
Subregulation 4
In this regulation —
Definition
“medical physicist” means an individual who has a degree in physics;
Definition
“registered nurse” has the meaning given by section 2 of the Nurses and Midwives Act 1999.