
1 

(1) These Regulations may be cited as the National Health Service (Charges to Overseas Visitors) (Scotland) Amendment (No.2) Regulations 1988 and shall come into force on 1st April 1988.
(2) In these Regulations “the principal Regulations” means the National Health Service (Charges to Overseas Visitors) (Scotland) Regulations 1982.
2 
In regulation 2 of the principal Regulations (charges for services forming part of the health service)—
(a) for paragraph (3)there shall be substituted the following:—“
(3) Where the services forming part of the health service are provided for an overseas visitor, otherwise than as an in-patient of a health service hospital, at, or by staff employed to work at or under the direction of, a hospital, there shall be made and recovered, in respect of each occasion on which such services are provided, a charge the amount of which shall be—
(a) except where it falls to be determined under sub-paragraph (b) below, the sum specified in Column (2) of Schedule 3 opposite the entry in Column (1) of that Schedule which relates to the services provided;
(b) in the case of the procedures to which paragraph 5(i) of Schedule 3 relates, the sum determined by multiplying the number of unit values specified in Schedule 4 for the group into which the relevant procedure falls, by the appropriate unit charge specified opposite paragraph 5(i) of Schedule 3.”;
(b) after paragraph (4) there shall be inserted the following paragraph:—“
(5) For purposes of paragraph (2) and Schedule 2, a “single room” means a room used for the accommodation of one patient only, such room having a floor area of not less than 10 square metres (or 8 square metres where a room is for the accommodation of a child under the age of 10 years) and being completely enclosed by walls or partitions and doors, and having been decorated within the previous 7 years.”.
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(1) For Schedule 2 to the principal Regulations (daily charges for services provided for overseas visitors as in-patients)there shall be substituted the Schedule set out in Schedule 1 to these Regulations.
(2) For Schedule 3 to the principal Regulations (charges for services provided for overseas visitors otherwise than as in-patients)there shall be substituted the Schedule set out in Schedule 2 to these Regulations.
(3) For Schedule 4 to the principal Regulations (unit values for purpose of determining charges for radiological procedures)there shall be substituted the Schedule set out in Schedule 3 to these Regulations.
4 
Regulations 2 and 5 of the National Health Service (Charges to Overseas Visitors) (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 1983, the whole of the National Health Service (Charges to Overseas Visitors) (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 1986, and regulation 3 of the National Health Services (Charges to Overseas Visitors) (Scotland) Amendment (No 2) Regulations 1986are hereby revoked.
Michael B Forsyth
Parliamentary Under Secretary of State, Scottish Office
New St Andrew’s House,
Edinburgh
10th March 1988
SCHEDULE 1
Regulation 3(1)
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SCHEDULE 2
Regulation 2(2)


Column (1) Column (2) Column (3)
Class of hospital in which services are provided Single room Other accommodation
£ £
1 202 184
2 147 133
4 153 138
5 150 137
6 152 138
7 230 209
8 96 87
9 104 95
10 81 74
11 148 135
12 l30 l18
13 100 91
14 137 124
15 187 170
16 71 65
17 66 60
18 70 63
19 68 61
20 60 55
21 101 92
22 207 188
23 116 106
24 238 217
25 193 176
26 240 218
27 85 78
28 140 127
29 124 113
31 85 77
32 68 62
33 107 98
34 66 60
35 58 52
37 72 66
38 83 75
39 57 52
40 55 50
42 209 190
44 86 79”
SCHEDULE 2
Regulation 3(2)
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SCHEDULE 3
Regulation 2(3)


Column (1) Column (2)
Services provided All classes of hospital

1 
For a patient on each attendance at a hospital other than attendances directly associated with the procedures listed in paragraphs 4-12 of this Schedule £ 14.50

2 
Charges per day exclusive of charges for procedures listed in paragraphs 112 below.
For the purpose of this item a day case is a patient who attends as a non-resident patient for investigation, treatment or operation and who occupies a bed without staying overnight £ 28.50

3 
Charges per day exclusive of charges for procedures listed in paragraphs 4-12 below
For the purpose of this item a day patient is someone who attends regularly for a course of treatment without necessarily occupying a bed or staying overnight £ 34.00

4 
For each request £ 7.50

5 

i. For each procedure listed in Schedule 4 (charge per unit £ 6.50 per unit for the first 6 units, value) £1.00 per unit thereafter

ii. CT Scanning. For all Scans £ 96.00

6 
For treatment in any one day £ 18.00

7 
Per attendance £ 5.50

8 
For treatment in any one day £ 8.50

9 

i. Audiometry £ 5.00

ii. Electrocardiography. For each testing session £ 9.50

iii. Electroencephalography. For each testing session £ 38.50

iv. Electromyography. For each testing session £ 24.00

10 
Operating theatre facilities booked as required:
i. for less than 10 minute £ 22.50

ii. for 10 minutes to 30 minutes £ 44.00

iii. for more than 30 minutes £ 67.00

11 
For haemodialysis or intermittent peritoneal dialysis:
i. with training, or routine, at a hospital – per session £111.00

ii. routine, at home – per session £ 70.50

iii. minimal care unit – per session £ 90.50
For continuous ambulatory peritoneal dialysis (including continuous cycling peritoneal dialysis) – per day £ 33.50

12 
For the supply of a drug or medicine which is designed to eliminate, prevent the replication of, or in any way inhibit the mode of action of any Human Immunodeficiency Virus – for each quantity sufficient for one day’s treatment £ 14.50”
SCHEDULE 3
Regulation 3(3)
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SCHEDULE 4
Regulation 2(3)

 Abdomen erect and/or supine
 Acromio-clavicular joint(s)
 Ankle Chest PA and/or lateral and/or obliques and/or rib views
 Clavicle
 Elbow
 Femur
 Finger or fingers of one hand
 Foot
 Foreign body demonstration
 Hand
 Hip
 Humerus
 Knee
 Larynx
 Localisation of treatment field
 Mandible
 Nasal bones
 Calcaneum
 Patella
 Pathological specimen
 Pelvis
 Hips and pelvis
 Post-nasal space
 Radius and ulna
 Sacro-iliac joints
 Sacrum and/or coccyx
 Scapula
 Shoulder
 Sinuses and antra
 Sterno-clavicular joint
 Sternum
 Teeth
 Thoracic inlet
 Thumb
 Tibia and fibula
 Toe or toes of one foot
 Wrist
 Perineum
 Soft tissues of neck


 Cholangiography, post-operative
 Cholecystography
 Facial bones and/or cephalometry
 Fluoroscopy with mobile image intensifier
 Mammography
 Mastoids
 Orthopaedic measurement
 Pelvimetry
 Pneumothorax, diagnostic
 Skull and/or pituitary fossa and/or optic foramina and/or internal auditory meati
 Small bowel biopsy
 Spine
 Lumbar spine
 Lumbo-sacral spine
 Lumbo-sacral spine and sacro-iliac joints
 Lumbo-sacral spine with obliques
 Cervical spine
 Cervical spine with obliques
 Cervical spine with obliques and flexion and extension views
 Lumbar spine and cervical spine on one patient
 Teeth, panoramic tomography
 Temporo-mandibular joints
 Ultrasound, all types
 Salivary glands
 Skeletal survey


 Cholangiography, operative
 Cystography
 Cystometrography
 Cysto-urethrography
 Dacrocystography
 Endoscopy
 Foreign body localisation
 Gastro-intestinal tract, upper (includes examination to the mouth of the upper small bowel or any part thereof)
 Orthopaedic pinning
 Hysterosalpingography
 Intra-uterine transfusion
 Kidney, exposed
 Laryngography
 Mammary ductography
 Retrograde pyelography and/or ascending ureterography
 Sialography
 Sinography
 Tomography, as a separate examination
 Urethrography
 Cholangiography, infusion
 Cholangiography, intravenous
 Gastro-intestinal tract, lower
 Pharyngography
 Fluoroscopy, other Computed tomography of the Head without contrast enhancement Computed tomography of the Head with contrast enhancement
 Computed tomography of the Neck without contrast enhancement
 Computed tomography of the Neck with contrast enhancement
 Computed tomography of the Thorax without contrast enhancement
 Computed tomography of the Thorax with contrast enhancement
 Computed tomography of the Abdomen without contrast enhancement
 Computed tomography of the Abdomen with contrast enhancement
 Computed tomography of the Pelvis without contrast enhancement
 Computed tomography of the Pelvis with contrast enhancement
 Computed tomography of a Limb without contrast enhancement
 Computed tomography of a Limb with contrast enhancement
 Computed tomography of the Spine without contrast enhancement
 Computed tomography of the Spine with contrast enhancement


 Amniography
 Arthrography Biopsy and/or aspiration under imaging control (includes Amniocentesis including ultrasound examination before and after the procedure)
 Bronchography
 Cholangiography, percutaneous
 Excretion urography
 Gastro-intestinal tract, upper including small bowel
 Gynaecography
 Stereotaxis
 Nerve injection under imaging control
 Ventriculography
 Nephrostogram, post operative
 Antegrade pyelography


 Aortography
 Bile duct, external drainage
 Cardiac catheterisation without angiocardiography
 Discography
 Insertion of pacemaker
 Lymphangiography
 Myelography
 Nephrostomy, percutaneous
 Phlebography
 Programmed stimulation study
 Retrograde cholangio-pancreatography
 Lumber radiculography
 Meatography
 Shuntography


 Angiocardiography
 Angioplasty, including angiography pre-and post-angioplasty
 Arteriography, all types
 Embolisation
 Encephalography
 Pituitary implant
 Magnetic resonance imaging
 Bile duct, internal drainage
 Bile duct, dilation of stricture
 Bile duct, stone extraction
 Kidney, stent insertion
 Kidney, stone extraction or destruction
 Dilatation of oesophageal stricture
 Dilatation of pyloric stenosis
 Insertion of caval filters
 Management of varicocoele
 Removal of intravascular foreign body
 Ablation of function of spleen
 Ablation of function of kidney
 Ablation of function of parathyroid
 Ablation of function of adrenal
 Cisternography
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