Singapore legislation
Regulation 16
of Healthcare Services (Outpatient Medical Service) Regulations 2023
Regulation 16
General requirements relating to provision of patient care
Subregulation 1
A licensee must ensure that every patient is properly assessed and the appropriate medical care or treatment is provided to the patient in a proper, effective and safe manner.
Subregulation 2
Subject to paragraphs (3) and (4), a licensee must ensure that —
no personnel provides a service or does an act beyond his or her professional expertise and qualifications; and
the provision of any service, or carrying out of any act, that is necessary to support the provision of an outpatient medical service and requires the provision of direct care to a patient by any personnel who is not a medical practitioner, is supervised by the medical practitioner who is charged with the care of the patient.
Subregulation 3
Paragraph (2)(a) does not prevent a collaborative prescribing practitioner of the licensee from providing a collaborative prescribing service for and on behalf of the licensee.
Subregulation 4
Paragraph (2)(b) does not apply to a service that is provided, or an act carried out, by a healthcare professional in the course of his or her practice as a healthcare professional.