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

Charges

18.  No fee or other remuneration shall be demanded or accepted for any treatment given to a patient, except –

(a) in those cases specified in sub-paragraphs (b), (e), (f), (h), (j) to (n) and (p) of paragraph 36 of Schedule 1 to the GMS Regulations;

(b) where a patient is treated under paragraph 9 of this Schedule, in which case a reasonable fee may be demanded and accepted for any treatment given, subject to any provisions in an agreement relating to the repayment of the fee to the patient;

(c) for treatment consisting of immunisation against a disease other than typhoid, paratyphoid, cholera, poliomyelitis and infectious hepatitis, which was requested in connection with travel abroad; or

(e) for treatment which is not a type usually provided by general medical practitioners and which is given–

(i) pursuant to section 57 of the 1978 Act; or

(ii) in a registered nursing home which is not providing services under the 1978 Act,

if, in either case, the performer providing the treatment is serving on the staff of a hospital providing services under the 1978 Act as a specialist providing treatment of the kind the patient requires, subject to any provisions in the agreement relating to the provision by the performer to the Health Board of information about the treatment.