Singapore legislation

Regulation 12

of Healthcare Services (Nuclear Medicine Service) Regulations 2023

Regulation 12

Specific personnel

Subregulation 1

A licensee must —

(a)

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

(b)

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 —

(a)

employ or engage at least one medical physicist; and

(b)

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 —

(a)

by a Clinical Governance Officer to have appropriate competency in providing patient care in relation to the provision of a nuclear medicine service; and

(b)

by any of the following persons appointed by the licensee to have appropriate competency in radiation safety:

(i)

a medical physicist;

(ii)

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;

(iii)

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.