The Personal Injuries (NHS Charges) (Amounts) (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 2022
| Year | 2022 |
2022 No. 45
National Health Service
The Personal Injuries (NHS Charges) (Amounts) (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 2022
Made 7th February 2022
Laid before the Scottish Parliament 9th February 2022
Coming into force 1st April 2022
The Scottish Ministers make the following Regulations in exercise of the powers conferred by sections 153(2) and (5) and 195(1) and (2) of the Health and Social Care (Community Health and Standards) Act 20031and all other powers enabling them to do so.
Citation and commencement
1. These Regulations may be cited as the Personal Injuries (NHS Charges) (Amounts) (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 2022 and come into force on 1 April 2022.
Amendment of the Personal Injuries (NHS Charges) (Amounts) (Scotland) Regulations 2006
2.—(1) The Personal Injuries (NHS Charges) (Amounts) (Scotland) Regulations 20062are amended in accordance with paragraphs (2) to (5).
(2) In regulation 2N(1) (amount of NHS charges – injuries occurring on or after 1st April 2021)3after “1st April 2021” insert “and before 1 April 2022”.
(3) After regulation 2N insert—
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Amount of NHS charges – injuries occurring on or after 1 April 2022
2O.—(1) Subject to the following paragraphs and regulations 3 and 3A, a certificate relating to an injury which occurs on or after 1 April 2022 must, for the purposes of section 153(2), specify—
(a)
(a) the sum of £231 for each occasion on which, as a result of such an injury, the injured person was provided with NHS ambulance services for the purpose of taking the injured person to a hospital for NHS treatment, and
(b)
(b) where the injured person received NHS treatment at a hospital in respect of the injury, if the injured person was—
(i) not admitted to hospital, the sum of £766, or
(ii) admitted to hospital, the sum of £941 for each day or part day of the admission.
(2) For the purposes of paragraph (1)(a), the reference to taking an injured person to a hospital includes taking that person from one hospital to another.
(3) Where the injured person was admitted to hospital on one day and discharged on another day, the day of the discharge shall be disregarded for the purpose of paragraph (1)(b)(ii).
(4) The amount which a certificate may specify under paragraph (1)(a) or (1)(b), or both, must not exceed £56,260 (“the maximum”).
(5) Where—
(a)
(a) amounts fall to be specified under both paragraph (1)(a) and paragraph (1)(b), and
(b)
(b) the aggregate of...
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