Treatment time guarantee
9Treatment time guarantee: further provision
1
The Scottish Ministers must by regulations make the further provision about the treatment time guarantee specified in subsection (2).
2
The further provision is—
a
the descriptions of patients which are eligible for the treatment time guarantee, and
b
how waiting time is to be calculated (in particular, specifying the circumstances in which days are not to be counted towards a maximum waiting time).
3
The Scottish Ministers may by regulations specify—
a
treatments and services (including categories of treatments and services) in respect of which the treatment time guarantee does not apply,
b
action that a Health Board is to take to ensure that it complies with a treatment time guarantee,
c
circumstances in which the maximum waiting time for a patient may be extended or recalculated (and how such extension or recalculation is to be done),
d
circumstances in which responsibility for a treatment time guarantee may transfer to a different Health Board,
e
the information that a Health Board is to provide to patients about the treatment time guarantee, including—
i
how waiting times are calculated,
ii
the circumstances in which the maximum waiting time may be extended, recalculated or suspended,
iii
such other information as the Scottish Ministers consider appropriate.
4
The Scottish Ministers may by order—
a
amend the duration of the maximum waiting time for the time being specified in section 13,
b
specify such different period of time to be the maximum waiting time under section 13 in relation to any treatment or services specified in such order.