The Prisons and Young Offenders Institutions (Scotland) Rules 2006

Records of medical treatment

40.—(1) Subject to paragraph (2), a medical officer shall in respect of each prisoner maintain a record of the prisoner’s health and of all medical treatment given to that prisoner in prison, or at a medical facility outwith prison, during the period the prisoner is committed to that prison.

(2) Where–

(a) a prisoner is moved from any prison to any other prison; or

(b) a young offender is moved from any young offenders institution to any other institution or to a prison in terms of section 20A or 21 of the Act(1),

a medical officer of the prison or young offenders institution from which the person is moved shall send the prisoner’s or young offender’s medical record to a medical officer of the prison or young offenders institution to which the prisoner or young offender is moved.

(3) For the purposes of this rule, “medical treatment” shall be deemed to include any examination, consultation, diagnosis, operation, treatment or prescription.

(1)

1989 c. 45; section 20A was inserted by the Prisoners and Criminal Proceedings (Scotland) Act 1993 (c. 9), section 23 and was amended by the Crime and Punishment (Scotland) Act 1997 (c. 48), section 62 and Schedule 1, paragraph 13; section 21 was amended by the said Act of 1993, Schedule 5, paragraph 6(5) and Schedule 7 and by the Criminal Procedure (Consequential Provisions) (Scotland) Act 1995 (c. 40), Schedule 4, paragraph 75(3) and also by the said Act of 1995, Schedule 4.