2017 No. 58
The Personal Injuries (NHS Charges) (Amounts) (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 2017
Made
Laid before the Scottish Parliament
Coming into force
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 20031 and all other powers enabling them to do so.
Citation and commencement1
These Regulations may be cited as the Personal Injuries (NHS Charges) (Amounts) (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 2017 and come into force on 1st April 2017.
Amendment of the Personal Injuries (NHS Charges) (Amounts) (Scotland) Regulations 20062
1
The Personal Injuries (NHS Charges) (Amounts) (Scotland) Regulations 20062 are amended as follows.
2
In regulation 2I(1) (amount of NHS charges – injuries occurring on or after 1st April 2016)3, after “1st April 2016” insert “and before 1stApril 2017”.
3
After regulation 2I insert—
Amount of NHS charges – injuries occurring on or after 1st April 20172J
1
Subject to the following paragraphs of this regulation and regulations 3 and 3A, a certificate relating to an injury which occurs on or after 1st April 2017 shall, for the purpose of section 153(2), specify—
a
the sum of £205 for each occasion on which, as a result of 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
where the injured person received NHS treatment at a hospital in respect of the injury, either—
i
if the injured person was not admitted to hospital, the sum of £678; or
ii
if the injured person was admitted to hospital, the sum of £833 for each day or part day of 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 discharge shall be disregarded for the purposes 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 £49,824 (“the maximum”).
5
Where—
a
amounts fall to be specified under both paragraph (1)(a) and paragraph (1)(b); and
b
the aggregate of those amounts would exceed the maximum,
the amount to be specified under paragraph (1)(b) is to be reduced by the difference between the maximum and the aggregate of those amounts.
4
In regulation 3(2) (amount of NHS charges: further provision)4, for “or 2I” substitute “, 2I or 2J”.
(This note is not part of the Regulations)