The Personal Injuries (NHS Charges) (Amounts) (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 2026

Explanatory note

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These Regulations amend the Personal Injuries (NHS Charges) (Amounts) (Scotland) Regulations 2006 (“ the principal Regulations ”) which make provision in relation to the amount of NHS charges which can be recovered from a person who pays compensation to an injured person where that injured person has received NHS treatment or ambulance services.

Regulation 2 amends regulation 2T of the principal Regulations and inserts regulation 2U into the principal Regulations to increase the charges in respect of injuries which occur on or after 1 October 2026. Where the injured person is provided with NHS ambulance services, the charge is increased from £267 to £272 for each occasion on which the service is provided. Where the injured person receives NHS treatment but is not admitted to hospital, the charge is increased from £883 to £901. The daily charge for NHS inpatient treatment is increased from £1,085 to £1,107. The maximum charge in respect of an injury is increased from £64,856 to £66,173.

Regulation 2 also makes consequential amendments, by way of inserting references to the increased charges in new regulation 2U, to provisions in the principal Regulations where a person makes more than one compensation payment to an injured person; or where a person is due to pay NHS charges to both the Scottish Ministers and the Secretary of State.