15. Where the managers of the receiving hospital consent to the reception in Scotland of a patient in accordance with regulation 14, they shall consider whether any directions for the patient’s conveyance to that patient’s destination in Scotland have been given by the appropriate national authority, and may–
(a)give any directions or further directions as they think fit;
(b)arrange for the patient’s responsible medical officer, appointed by virtue of regulation 18, to give such directions; or
(c)do both (a) and (b).