Explanatory note

These Regulations amend the Personal Injuries (NHS Charges) (Amounts) (Scotland) Regulations 2006 (“the principal Regulations”) which make provision in relation to the amount of NHS charges which can be recovered from a person who pays compensation to an injured person where that injured person has received National Health Service treatment or ambulance services.

Regulation 2 amends regulation 2S of the principal Regulations and inserts regulation 2T into the principal Regulations to increase the charges in respect of injuries which occur on or after 1 October 2025. Where the injured person is provided with NHS ambulance services, the charge is increased from £256 to £267 for each occasion on which the service is provided. Where the injured person receives NHS treatment but is not admitted to hospital, the charge is increased from £848 to £883. The daily charge for NHS inpatient treatment is increased from £1,042 to £1,085. The maximum charge in respect of an injury is increased from £62,272 to £64,856.

Regulation 2 also makes consequential amendments, by way of inserting references to the increased charges in new regulation 2T, to provisions in the principal Regulations where a person makes more than one compensation payment to an injured person; or where a person is due to pay NHS charges to both the Scottish Ministers and the Secretary of State.