Singapore legislation

Regulation 30

of Healthcare Services (Nursing Home Service) Regulations 2023

Regulation 30

Psychosocial support

Subregulation 1

Subject to paragraph (3), where a patient, in the course of receiving a nursing home service from a licensee, requires any psychosocial support, the licensee must —

(a)

provide the psychosocial support to the patient at the licensee’s approved permanent premises; and

(b)

ensure that the licensee’s personnel who assists the licensee in providing the psychosocial support to the patient —

(i)

satisfies the conditions in paragraph (2); or

(ii)

is supervised by another personnel of the licensee who satisfies the conditions in paragraph (2).

Subregulation 2

For the purposes of paragraph (1)(b), the personnel —

(a)

is an employee of the licensee;

(b)

holds a degree or graduate diploma in social work or a degree in clinical psychology; and

(c)

has full-time work experience in providing psychosocial support to patients for an aggregate period of at least 3 years —

(i)

in a private hospital, medical clinic or healthcare establishment (as the case may be) licensed under the repealed Act; or

(ii)

in the provision of a licensable healthcare service.

Subregulation 3

Despite paragraph (1), a licensee who is not approved to provide a hospice service may —

(a)

in lieu of complying with paragraph (1), make arrangements for the patient to receive the psychosocial support at premises other than the licensee’s approved permanent premises from an individual (not being the licensee’s personnel) who —

(i)

is trained and qualified to provide the psychosocial support, and holds a degree or graduate diploma in social work or a degree in clinical psychology; or

(ii)

provides the psychosocial support to the patient under the supervision of another individual who is trained and qualified to provide the psychosocial support, and holds a degree or graduate diploma in social work or a degree in clinical psychology; or

(b)

in lieu of complying with paragraph (1)(b), ensure that the licensee’s personnel who assists the licensee in providing the psychosocial support to the patient —

(i)

is trained and qualified to provide the psychosocial support, and holds a degree or graduate diploma in social work or a degree in clinical psychology; or

(ii)

is supervised by another personnel of the licensee who is trained and qualified to provide the psychosocial support, and holds a degree or graduate diploma in social work or a degree in clinical psychology.

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