The National Health Service (Personal Medical Services) (Scotland) Regulations 2001

Responsibility for performance of personal medical services

11.—(1) Personal medical services shall be performed by those performers named in an agreement as being primarily responsible for the performance of those services in respect of the patients, except in the circumstances specified in an agreement in accordance with paragraph 11(d) of Schedule 1 when, subject to sub-paragraphs (2) and (3), the services may be performed by another medical practitioner.

(2) Child health surveillance services and minor surgery services may be performed only by a performer about whom a Health Board has satisfied itself in accordance with regulation 8(1) or, as the case may be 8(3).

(3) Where it is clinically reasonable in the circumstances to delegate a task or duty connected with the performance of personal medical services to someone other than a performer, that task or duty may be delegated by a performer to a person whom that performer is satisfied is competent to undertake that task or duty (but clinical responsibility for the performance of personal medical services will remain with the performer).