Singapore legislation
Regulation 26
of Healthcare Services (Outpatient Medical Service) Regulations 2023
Regulation 26
Essential life‑saving measures must be available
Subregulation 1
A licensee must —
ensure that adequate and appropriate facilities, equipment and drugs for the provision of any essential life‑saving measure to a patient are readily available at every approved permanent premises, temporary premises and approved conveyance; and
at all times, be capable of providing essential life‑saving measures to any patient who is at risk of death.
Subregulation 2
Without limiting paragraph (1), a licensee must ensure —
that only resuscitation drugs that have not passed their expiry dates and are fit for use and resuscitation equipment that is fit for use are made available for use in the provision of any essential life-saving measure;
the establishment and implementation of protocols for the rapid and accurate assessment of any patient who is in need of essential life‑saving measures; and
every personnel who provides any essential life‑saving measure to a patient is adequately trained —
to provide the essential life‑saving measure in a proper, effective and safe manner; and
in the use of the equipment that is needed to deliver the essential life‑saving measure.
Subregulation 3
A licensee who is approved to provide an outpatient medical service by remote provision, must provide, or cause to be provided, any essential life‑saving measures to a patient where —
the patient is in need of any essential life‑saving measure, or the patient becomes in need of any essential life‑saving measure, during the process of receiving an outpatient medical service by remote provision from the licensee; and
the licensee knows where the patient is located.
Subregulation 4
A licensee must ensure that each protocol mentioned in paragraph (2)(b) is documented and that all personnel are trained and proficient in implementing the protocol.