Singapore legislation
Regulation 9
of Healthcare Services (Nuclear Medicine Service) Regulations 2023
Regulation 9
Appointment of section leader
Subregulation 1
A licensee must, in relation to each purpose for which a nuclear medicine service is provided, appoint a suitably qualified person as the section leader for that purpose.
Subregulation 2
A section leader must be resident in Singapore.
Subregulation 3
A Clinical Governance Officer may be appointed as a section leader.
Subregulation 4
For the purposes of this regulation, an individual is a suitably qualified person if any of the following applies:
in relation to the provision of the nuclear medicine service for an imaging purpose — the individual is a diagnostic radiographer, nuclear medicine technologist or radiation therapist who has at least 3 years of work experience in providing the nuclear medicine service for that purpose;
in relation to the provision of the nuclear medicine service for an in vivo assay purpose — the individual is a diagnostic radiographer, nuclear medicine technologist, radiation therapist or radiochemistry personnel who has at least 3 years of work experience in providing the nuclear medicine service for that purpose;
in relation to the provision of the nuclear medicine service for a therapy purpose, the individual is —
a diagnostic radiographer, nuclear medicine technologist, radiation therapist or radiochemistry personnel who has at least 3 years of work experience in providing the nuclear medicine service for that purpose; or
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.
Subregulation 5
In this regulation, “radiochemistry personnel” means an individual who holds a diploma, degree or any higher educational qualification in chemistry, medical physics, nuclear medicine sciences, pharmaceutical services or radiochemistry.