# General Medical Services Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1997, Paragraph 2: General

Extent: N.I.
Status: prospective

Where a decision whether any, and if so what, action is to be taken under these terms of service requires the exercise of professional judgement, a doctor shall not, in reaching that decision, be expected to exercise a higher degree of skill, knowledge and care than—
(a) in the case of a doctor providing child health surveillance services under regulation 27, maternity medical services under regulation 34 or minor surgery services under regulation 36, that which any general practitioner whose name is included in the child health surveillance list, the obstetric list or, as the case may be, the minor surgery list may reasonably be expected to exercise; and
(b) in any other case, that which general practitioners as a class may reasonably be expected to exercise.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/1997/380/schedule/2/paragraph/2 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/general-medical-services-regulations-northern-ireland-1997/schedule-2/paragraph-2
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