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Article 35 Arrangements for care by other medical practitioners or other persons providing professional services or at outside facilities

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

(1)

A medical officer who considers it appropriate to call into consultation, or refer a prisoner to, another medical practitioner or a specialist, shall–

(a)

inform the Governor; and

(b)

thereafter make such arrangements as are necessary.

(2)

Where a medical officer considers that the condition of a prisoner’s health requires treatment at a medical facility outwith the prison, the Governor shall make such arrangements for the transfer of the prisoner to such facility as the Governor considers appropriate.

(3)

In this rule, “medical facility” includes any hospital and any other premises at which any form of services for the care of a person’s health is provided.