{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-health-service-scotland-act-1978/section-12IK",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-health-service-scotland-act-1978/section-12IK.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1978/29",
  "legislation_title": "National Health Service (Scotland) Act 1978",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-health-service-scotland-act-1978",
  "path": "section/12IK",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "12IK",
  "heading": "Common staffing method: types of health care",
  "text": "(1) The types of health care are those described in the first column of the table below, in so far as they are provided at any one of the kinds of locations and by any one of the kinds of employees listed in the corresponding entries in the second and third columns.\nType of health care\nLocation\nEmployees\nAdult inpatient provision\nHospital wards with 17 occupied beds or more on average\nRegistered nurses\nClinical nurse specialist provision\nHospitals\nRegistered nurses who work as clinical nurse specialists\nCommunity settings\nCommunity nursing provision\nCommunity settings\nRegistered nurses\nCommunity children's nursing provision\nCommunity settings\nRegistered nurses\nEmergency care provision\nEmergency departments in hospitals\nRegistered nurses\nMedical practitioners\nMaternity provision\nHospitals\nRegistered midwives\nCommunity settings\nMental health and learning disability provision\nMental health units in hospitals\nRegistered nurses\nLearning disability units in hospitals\nNeonatal provision\nNeonatal units in hospitals\nRegistered midwives\nRegistered nurses\nPaediatric inpatient provision\nPaediatric wards in hospitals\nRegistered nurses\nSmall ward provision\nHospital wards with 16 occupied beds or fewer on average\nRegistered nurses\n(2) In the third column of the table in subsection (1), references to—\n(a) registered nurses,\n(b) registered midwives, and\n(c) medical practitioners,\ninclude other individuals providing care for patients and acting under the supervision of, or discharging duties delegated to the individual by, the registered nurse, registered midwife or medical practitioner (as the case may be).\n(3) But those references do not include individuals who are engaged in a course of studies in order to be admitted to—\n(a) the register of members maintained by the Nursing and Midwifery Council under section 60 of the Health Act 1999, or\n(b) the register of medical practitioners maintained by the General Medical Council under section 2 of the Medical Act 1983 (with the exception of persons who are already provisionally registered under section 15 of that Act).\n(4) The Scottish Ministers may by regulations amend subsections (1) to (3) so as to add, remove, or change the description of a type of health care, including where and by whom it is provided (for example, so as to add to the third column of the table in subsection (1) employees of a kind included in the register of members maintained by the Health and Care Professions Council under section 60 of the Health Act 1999).",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Ss. 12IA-12IO and cross-heading inserted (15.5.2023 for specified purposes, 6.2.2024 for specified purposes, 1.4.2024 for specified purposes) by Health and Care (Staffing) (Scotland) Act 2019 (asp 6), ss. 4(2), 15(2); S.S.I. 2023/131, reg. 2, sch.; S.S.I. 2024/20, reg. 2(1)(2)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1978/29/section/12IK",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-31T10:30:48.038600+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}