The National Health Service (General Ophthalmic Services) (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 2018

Amendment of the National Health Service (General Ophthalmic Services) (Scotland) Regulations 2006

3.  In regulation 2(1) (interpretation)—

(a) after the definition of “electronic communication” insert—

““emergency eye examination” means an eye examination carried out, in circumstances that in the professional judgement of an ophthalmic medical practitioner or optician constitute an emergency, on the day that a person presents under regulation 21B or within a reasonable period thereof;”;

(b) in the definition of “eye examination form”, for “a form supplied by a Health Board” substitute “an electronic form supplied by the Agency”;

(c) after the definition of “general ophthalmic services” insert—

““Goldmann type tonometer” includes a Perkins type tonometer;”; and

(d) in paragraph (b) of the definition of “supplementary eye examination”(1), for “22(3C)” substitute “22A(2)”.

(1)

The definition of “supplementary eye examination” was substituted by S.S.I. 2013/355.