Singapore legislation
Regulation 32
of Healthcare Services (Nuclear Medicine Service) Regulations 2023
Regulation 32
Discharge of patients
Subregulation 1
A licensee must ensure that a patient who has been administered a specified anaesthetic is discharged only after he or she has been assessed by a medical practitioner who is the licensee’s personnel to be fit for discharge.
Subregulation 2
Without limiting paragraph (1), the licensee must ensure that —
the attending medical practitioner (who is the licensee’s personnel) for a patient assesses whether the patient is fit for discharge;
where the attending medical practitioner for a patient is not available to assess whether the patient is fit for discharge, another medical practitioner (who is the licensee’s personnel) assesses the patient for that purpose instead;
a patient is discharged from the licensee’s care in accordance with the licensee’s policy on when a patient can be discharged after anaesthesia or sedation; and
a patient is not asked to leave the approved permanent premises before the patient is assessed to be fit for discharge.