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Schedule 7 Minor Surgery ProceduresI1

Northern Ireland Not yet in force

Changes not yet applied. Later legislation changes this provision in ways not yet written into the text below:

Injections

  • intra-articular

  • peri-articular

  • varicose veins

  • haemorrhoid

Aspirations

  • joints

  • cysts

  • bursae

  • hydrocele

Incisions

  • abscesses

  • cysts

  • thrombosed piles

Excisions

  • sebaceous cysts

  • lipoma skin lesions for histology

  • intradermal naevi, papilloma, dermatofibroma and similar conditions

  • warts

  • removal of toe nails (partial and complete)

Curette cautery and cryocautery

  • warts and verrucae

  • other skin lesions (for example molluscum contagiosum)

Other

  • removal of foreign bodies

  • nasal cautery

Annotations

Commencement

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Sch. 7 in operation at 6.10.1997, see reg. 1