# National Health Service (Scotland) Act 1978, Section 12IK: Common staffing method: types of health care (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. Type of health care Location Employees Adult inpatient provision Hospital wards with 17 occupied beds or more on average Registered nurses Clinical nurse specialist provision Hospitals Registered nurses who work as clinical nurse specialists Community settings Community nursing provision Community settings Registered nurses Community children's nursing provision Community settings Registered nurses Emergency care provision Emergency departments in hospitals Registered nurses Medical practitioners Maternity provision Hospitals Registered midwives Community settings Mental health and learning disability provision Mental health units in hospitals Registered nurses Learning disability units in hospitals Neonatal provision Neonatal units in hospitals Registered midwives Registered nurses Paediatric inpatient provision Paediatric wards in hospitals Registered nurses Small ward provision Hospital wards with 16 occupied beds or fewer on average Registered nurses (2) In the third column of the table in subsection (1), references to— (a) registered nurses, (b) registered midwives, and (c) medical practitioners, include 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). (3) But those references do not include individuals who are engaged in a course of studies in order to be admitted to— (a) the register of members maintained by the Nursing and Midwifery Council under section 60 of the Health Act 1999, or (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). (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). --- Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1978/29/section/12IK (the official version) Page: https://openlegislation.uk/national-health-service-scotland-act-1978/section-12IK Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives.