Singapore legislation
Regulation 17
of Healthcare Services (Nursing Home Service) Regulations 2023
Regulation 17
Staffing requirement
Subregulation 1
A licensee must ensure that there is an adequate number of personnel present at every approved permanent premises so as to enable the licensee to provide a nursing home service to every patient at those premises in a proper, effective and safe manner.
Subregulation 2
Without limiting paragraph (1), a licensee must ensure that —
every patient (other than a hospice patient) is assigned an attending medical practitioner who has overall responsibility for the patient’s health;
where the licensee is approved to provide a hospice service, every hospice patient is assigned a palliative medicine specialist who has overall responsibility for the patient’s health;
every patient is assigned an attending registered nurse who has overall responsibility for the patient’s nursing needs; and
a registered nurse is on call for the purpose of providing support to any nursing personnel present at the approved permanent premises.
Subregulation 3
Where a licensee does not make arrangements for a medical practitioner to be present, at all times, at any approved permanent premises, the licensee must inform every patient or (if the patient is a minor or lacks mental capacity) a next‑of‑kin or carer of the patient of this fact before the patient’s admission to the approved permanent premises.