The National Health Service (General Medical and Pharmaceutical Services) Amendment (No. 2) Regulations 1989

regulation 22

SCHEDULE 4(NEW SCHEDULE 1A TO BE INSERTED IN THE PRINCIPAL REGULATIONS)

regulation 2(1) Schedule 1, paragraph 9B

“SCHEDULE 1ACHILD HEALTH SURVEILLANCE SERVICES

1.  The services referred to in paragraph 9B(a) of Schedule 1 shall comprise–

(a)the monitoring–

(i)by the consideration of information concerning the child received by or on behalf of the doctor, and

(ii)on any occasion when the child is examined or observed by or on behalf of the doctor (whether pursuant to sub-paragraph (b) or otherwise),

of the health, well-being and physical, mental and social development (all of which characteristics are referred to in this Schedule as “development”) of the child while under the age of 5 years with a view to detecting any deviations from normal development;

(b)the examination of the child by or on behalf of the doctor on so many occasions and at such intervals as shall have been agreed between the Committee and the health authority in whose district the child resides (in this Schedule called “the relevant health authority”) for the purposes of the provision of child health surveillance services generally in that district.

2.  The records mentioned in paragraph 9B(b) of Schedule 1 shall comprise an accurate record of–

(a)the development of the child while under the age of 5 years, compiled as soon as is reasonably practicable following the first examination mentioned in paragraph 1(a) of this Schedule and, where appropriate, amended following each subsequent examination mentioned in that sub-paragraph; and

(b)the responses (if any) to offers made to the child’s parent for the child to undergo any examination referred to in paragraph 1(b) of this Schedule.

3.  The information mentioned in paragraph 9B(c) of Schedule 1 shall comprise–

(a)a statement, to be prepared and dispatched to the relevant health authority referred to in paragraph 1(b) of this Schedule as soon as is reasonably practicable following any examination referred to in paragraph 1(a) of this Schedule, of the procedures undertaken in the course of that examination and of the doctor’s findings in relation to each such procedure;

(b)such further information regarding the development of the child while under the age of 5 years as the relevant health authority may request.”