Singapore legislation

Regulation 60

of Healthcare Services (Nuclear Medicine Service) Regulations 2023

Regulation 60

Records — specimens

A licensee must keep records of all of the following information in relation to each specimen that the licensee derives from any patient for the purposes of an applicable test:

(a)

all of the following identifying information:

(i)

the patient’s name;

(ii)

the patient’s identification number or passport number;

(b)

the patient’s gender;

(c)

the date and time the specimen was derived from the patient;

(d)

the type of specimen;

(e)

in relation to a tissue specimen — the anatomical site of the specimen;

(f)

where the specimen is derived from a patient for the purposes of blood grouping, crossmatching, tissue typing or genetic testing — the name of the person who derived the specimen from the patient;

(g)

the relevant clinical status of the patient (where required), including whether the patient had fasted before the derivation of the specimen;

(h)

the characteristics of the specimen that may provide information that is relevant to the interpretation of the results of the applicable test;

(i)

the name of the requestor.