The National Health Service (Charges to Overseas Visitors) (Scotland) Amendment (No.2) Regulations 1988

• Citation: S.I. 1988/462
• Sections: 16

Section 1 Citation, commencement and interpretation

(1) These Regulations may be cited as the National Health Service (Charges to Overseas Visitors) (Scotland) Amendment (No.2) Regulations 1988 and shall come into force on 1st April 1988.

(2) In these Regulations “the principal Regulations ” means the National Health Service (Charges to Overseas Visitors) (Scotland) Regulations 1982 .

Section 2 Amendment of the principal Regulations

In regulation 2 of the principal Regulations (charges for services forming part of the health service)—

(a) for paragraph (3) there shall be substituted the following:—

(3) Where the services forming part of the health service are provided for an overseas visitor, otherwise than as an in-patient of a health service hospital, at, or by staff employed to work at or under the direction of, a hospital, there shall be made and recovered, in respect of each occasion on which such services are provided, a charge the amount of which shall be—

(a) except where it falls to be determined under sub-paragraph (b) below, the sum specified in Column (2) of Schedule 3 opposite the entry in Column (1) of that Schedule which relates to the services provided;

(b) in the case of the procedures to which paragraph 5(i) of Schedule 3 relates, the sum determined by multiplying the number of unit values specified in Schedule 4 for the group into which the relevant procedure falls, by the appropriate unit charge specified opposite paragraph 5(i) of Schedule 3.

(b) after paragraph (4) there shall be inserted the following paragraph:—

(5) For purposes of paragraph (2) and Schedule 2, a “single room” means a room used for the accommodation of one patient only, such room having a floor area of not less than 10 square metres (or 8 square metres where a room is for the accommodation of a child under the age of 10 years) and being completely enclosed by walls or partitions and doors, and having been decorated within the previous 7 years.

Section 3 Amendment of the principal Regulations

(1) For Schedule 2 to the principal Regulations (daily charges for services provided for overseas visitors as in-patients) there shall be substituted the Schedule set out in Schedule 1 to these Regulations.

(2) For Schedule 3 to the principal Regulations (charges for services provided for overseas visitors otherwise than as in-patients) there shall be substituted the Schedule set out in Schedule 2 to these Regulations.

(3) For Schedule 4 to the principal Regulations (unit values for purpose of determining charges for radiological procedures) there shall be substituted the Schedule set out in Schedule 3 to these Regulations.

Section 4 Revocations

Regulations 2 and 5 of the National Health Service (Charges to Overseas Visitors) (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 1983 , the whole of the National Health Service (Charges to Overseas Visitors) (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 1986 , and regulation 3 of the National Health Services (Charges to Overseas Visitors) (Scotland) Amendment (No 2) Regulations 1986 are hereby revoked.

Section 1

For a patient on each attendance at a hospital other than attendances directly associated with the procedures listed in paragraphs 4-12 of this Schedule

Section 2 DAY CASES

Charges per day exclusive of charges for procedures listed in paragraphs 112 below.

For the purpose of this item a day case is a patient who attends as a non-resident patient for investigation, treatment or operation and who occupies a bed without staying overnight

Section 3 DAY PATIENTS

Charges per day exclusive of charges for procedures listed in paragraphs 4-12 below

For the purpose of this item a day patient is someone who attends regularly for a course of treatment without necessarily occupying a bed or staying overnight

Section 4 PATHOLOGY

For each request

Section 5 RADIODIAGNOSIS, NUCLEAR MEDICINE AND ULTRASOUND

(i) For each procedure listed in Schedule 4 (charge per unit £ 6.50 per unit for the first 6 units, value)

Section 6 RADIOTHERAPY

For treatment in any one day

Section 7 PHYSIOTHERAPY AND REMEDIAL GYMNASTICS

Per attendance

Section 8 OCCUPATIONAL THERAPY

For treatment in any one day

Section 9 OTHER DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURES

(i) Audiometry

Section 10 USE OF OPERATING THEATRE FACILITIES

Operating theatre facilities booked as required:

(i) for less than 10 minute

Section 11 DIALYSIS

For haemodialysis or intermittent peritoneal dialysis:

(i) with training, or routine, at a hospital – per session

Section 12 SUPPLY OF DRUGS AND MEDICINES

For the supply of a drug or medicine which is designed to eliminate, prevent the replication of, or in any way inhibit the mode of action of any Human Immunodeficiency Virus – for each quantity sufficient for one day’s treatment