General Medical Services Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1997

Regulations 2 and 27(3) and (4)

SCHEDULE 4 Child Health Surveillance Services

1.  The services referred to in regulation 27(3)(a) shall comprise—

(a) the monitoring—

(i) by the consideration of information concerning the child received by or on behalf of the doctor; and

(ii) on any occasion when the child is examined or observed by or on behalf of the doctor (whether pursuant to sub-paragraph (b) or otherwise),

of the health, well-being and physical, mental and social development (all of which characteristics are referred to in this Schedule as “development”) for the child while under the age of 5 years with a view to detecting any deviations from normal development;

(b) the examination of the child, by or on behalf of the doctor, on so many occasions and at such intervals as shall have been agreed by the Board in whose area the child resides, for the purposes of the provision of child health surveillance services generally in that area.

2.  The records mentioned in regulation 27(3)(b) shall comprise an accurate record of—

(a) the development of the child while under the age of 5 years, compiled as soon as is reasonably practicable following the first examination mentioned in paragraph 1(a) and, where appropriate, amended following each subsequent examination mentioned in that sub-paragraph; and

(b) the responses (if any) to offers made to the child’s parent for the child to undergo any examination referred to in paragraph 1(b).

3.  The information mentioned in regulation 27(3)(c) shall comprise—

(a) a statement, to be prepared and sent to the relevant Board as soon as is reasonably practicable following any examination referred to in paragraph 1(a), of the procedures undertaken in the course of that examination and of the doctor’s findings in relation to each such procedure;

(b) such further information regarding the development of the child while under the age of 5 years as the relevant Board may request.