The National Health Service (General Medical Services) (Scotland) Regulations 1995

Interpretation

1.  In this Schedule, unless the context otherwise requires—

(a) “associate” means a doctor employed by a single-handed isolated practitioner with the consent of the Board;

(b) “patient” means a person for whose treatment a doctor is responsible under paragraph 4 of these terms of service;

(c) “deputising service” means any person or body carrying on a business which consists of or includes the provision of deputies for periods which normally do not exceed 72 consecutive hours:

(d) “prescription form” means a form provided by the Board or, where the doctor is on the medical list of more than one Board, by the Board which is responsible for the supply of that form for issue by a doctor to enable a person to obtain pharmaceutical services as defined by section 27 of the Act(1);

(e) unless the context otherwise requires any reference in a paragraph in this Schedule to a numbered sub-paragraph is a reference to the sub-paragraph bearing that number in that paragraph.

(1)

Section 27 was amended by the Health Services Act 1980 (c. 53), section 20(2), by the National Health Service (Amendment) Act 1986 (c. 66), section 3(3) and by the 1990 Act, Schedule 9, paragraph 19(7).