Singapore legislation

Regulation 26

of Healthcare Services (Ambulatory Surgical Centre Service) Regulations 2023

Regulation 26

Attending medical practitioner or dentist for each patient

A licensee must ensure that each patient is assigned a medical practitioner or dentist (as the case may be) who —

(a)

is the licensee’s personnel;

(b)

has overall responsibility for the patient’s general medical condition at all times that the patient is at any of the licensee’s approved permanent premises; and

(c)

has an arrangement with an acute hospital licensee that enables the medical practitioner or dentist (as the case may be) to admit a patient into the care of the acute hospital service licensee.