The Personal Injuries (NHS Charges) (Amounts) (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 2020
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2020 No. 16
National Health Service
The Personal Injuries (NHS Charges) (Amounts) (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 2020
Made 29th January 2020
Laid before the Scottish Parliament 30th January 2020
Coming into force 1st April 2020
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 2020 and come into force on 1 April 2020.
Amendment of the Personal Injuries (NHS Charges) (Amounts) (Scotland) Regulations 2006
2.—(1) The Personal Injuries (NHS Charges) (Amounts) (Scotland) Regulations 20062are amended as follows.
(2) In regulation 2L(1) (amount of NHS charges – injuries occurring on or after 1 April 2019)3, after “1st April 2019” insert “and before 1st April 2020”.
(3) After regulation 2L insert—
“Amount of NHS charges – injuries occurring on or after 1st April 2020
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 2020 shall, for the purpose of section 153(2), specify—
(a)
(a) the sum of £224 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, either—
(i) if the injured person was not admitted to hospital, the sum of £743; or
(ii) if the injured person was admitted to hospital, the sum of £913 for each day or part day of admission.
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.
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).
The amount which a certificate may specify under paragraph (1)(a) or (1)(b), or both, must not exceed £54,566 (“the maximum”).
Where—
(a)
(a) amounts fall to be specified under both paragraph (1)(a) and paragraph (1)(b), and
(b)
(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...
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