Singapore legislation

Regulation 14

of Healthcare Services (Assisted Reproduction Service) Regulations 2023

Regulation 14

General requirements relating to personnel

Subregulation 1

A licensee must ensure all of the following in relation to each personnel:

(a)

that records of any assessment of each personnel’s competencies and work performance are kept;

(b)

each of the following personnel (other than a qualified assisted reproduction practitioner or a person performing embryology procedures) is supervised by an experienced person when performing any task or providing any service in relation to the assisted reproduction service:

(i)

any personnel with less than 2 years of work experience in providing an assisted reproduction service;

(ii)

any personnel who has not been assessed by the Clinical Governance Officer to be able to perform the task or provide the service competently without supervision.

Subregulation 2

A licensee must ensure that —

(a)

a person other than the assessor audits records of the assessment mentioned in paragraph (1)(a); and

(b)

records of every audit mentioned in sub‑paragraph (a) are kept.

Subregulation 3

In this regulation —

Definition

“experienced person” means —

(a)

the Clinical Governance Officer; or

(b)

another of the licensee’s personnel with at least 2 years of relevant work experience and who is designated by the Clinical Governance Officer to provide supervision;

Definition

“relevant work experience”, in relation to any personnel designated by the Clinical Governance Officer to provide supervision, means work experience in any task performed or service provided which the personnel is designated to supervise.