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.