Singapore legislation
Regulation 22
of Healthcare Services (Community Hospital Service) Regulations 2023
Regulation 22
Rehabilitative service
Subregulation 1
A licensee must establish, implement and regularly review processes and procedures to assess every patient as to whether the patient requires any rehabilitative service, and (if the patient so requires) the patient’s suitability to receive the rehabilitative service.
Subregulation 2
Where a patient is assessed by a licensee to require, and to be suitable to receive, a rehabilitative service, the licensee must —
provide the rehabilitative service to the patient at the licensee’s approved permanent premises; or
make arrangements for a duly qualified allied health professional (who is not the licensee’s personnel and is trained in rehabilitation) to provide the rehabilitative service to the patient at premises other than the approved permanent premises.
Subregulation 3
For the purposes of providing a rehabilitative service to a patient under paragraph (2)(a), the licensee must ensure that —
a rehabilitative plan, that has been approved or endorsed by a duly qualified allied health professional for that service, is proposed and communicated to the patient; and
the rehabilitative service is provided by a personnel who is trained in rehabilitation, and in accordance with the rehabilitative plan.