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National Health Service Act 2006 List of acts
Promotion and provision of the health service in England
1. Secretary of State’s duty to promote health service
2. Secretary of State’s general power
3. Secretary of State’s duty as to provision of certain services
4. High security psychiatric services
6. Performance of functions outside England
7. Distribution of health service functions
8. Secretary of State’s directions to health service bodies
9. NHS contracts
10. Provision for bodies in Northern Ireland
11. Arrangements to be treated as NHS contracts
12. Secretary of State’s arrangements with other bodies
13. Strategic Health Authorities
14. Exercise of Strategic Health Authority functions
15. Strategic Health Authorities' directions
16. Section 92 arrangements and section 107 arrangements
17. Advice for Strategic Health Authorities
19. Exercise of Primary Care Trust functions
20. Strategic Health Authority directions to Primary Care Trusts
21. Provision of services etc
22. Administration and management of services
23. Advice for Primary Care Trusts
24. Plans for improving health etc
25. NHS trusts
26. General duty of NHS trusts
27. Financial provisions relating to NHS trusts
28. Special Health Authorities
29. Exercise of Special Health Authority functions
30. NHS foundation trusts
31. Independent Regulator of NHS Foundation Trusts
32. General duty of regulator
33. Applications by NHS trusts
34. Other applications
35. Authorisation of NHS foundation trusts
36. Effect of authorisation
37. Amendments of constitution
38. Variation of authorisation
39. Register of NHS foundation trusts
40. Power of Secretary of State to give financial assistance
41. Prudential borrowing code
42. Public dividend capital
43. Authorised services
44. Private health care
45. Protection of property
46. Financial powers
47. General powers
49. Entry and inspection of premises
51. Trust funds and trustees
52. Failing NHS foundation trusts
53. Voluntary arrangements
54. Dissolution etc
55. Sections 53 and 54: supplementary
56. Mergers
57. Section 56: supplementary
58. Taxation
59. Conduct of elections
60. Voting and standing for election
61. Representative membership
62. Audit
63. General duty of NHS foundation trusts
64. Orders and regulations under this Chapter
65. Interpretation of this Chapter
66. Intervention orders
67. Effect of intervention orders
68. Default powers
70. Transfer of residual liabilities
71. Schemes for meeting losses and liabilities etc of certain health service bodies
72. Co-operation between NHS bodies
73. Directions and regulations under this Part
74. Supply of goods and services by local authorities
75. Arrangements between NHS bodies and local authorities
76. Power of local authorities to make payments
77. Care Trusts
78. Directed partnership arrangements
79. Further provision about directions and directed partnership arrangements
80. Supply of goods and services by the Secretary of State
81. Conditions of supply under section 80
82. Co-operation between NHS bodies and local authorities
83. Primary medical services
84. General medical services contracts: introductory
85. Requirement to provide certain primary medical services
86. Persons eligible to enter into GMS contracts
87. GMS contracts: payments
88. GMS contracts: prescription of drugs, etc
89. GMS contracts: other required terms
90. GMS contracts: disputes and enforcement
91. Persons performing primary medical services
92. Arrangements by Strategic Health Authorities for the provision of primary medical services
93. Persons with whom agreements may be made under section 92
94. Regulations about section 92 arrangements
95. Transfer of liabilities relating to section 92 arrangements
96. Assistance and support: primary medical services
97. Local Medical Committees
98. Use of accommodation: provision of primary medical services
99. Primary dental services
100. General dental services contracts: introductory
101. Requirement to provide certain primary dental services
102. Persons eligible to enter into GDS contracts
103. GDS contracts: payments
104. GDS contracts: other required terms
105. GDS contracts: disputes and enforcement
106. Persons performing primary dental services
107. Arrangements by Strategic Health Authorities for the provision of primary dental services
108. Persons with whom agreements may be made under section 107
109. Regulations about section 107 arrangements
110. Transfer of liabilities relating to section 107 arrangements
111. Dental public health
112. Assistance and support: primary dental services
113. Local Dental Committees
114. Use of accommodation: provision of primary dental services
115. Primary ophthalmic services
116. Regulations under section 115: supplementary
117. General ophthalmic services contracts: introductory
118. Persons eligible to enter into GOS contracts
119. Exclusion of contractors
120. GOS contracts: payments
121. GOS contracts: other required terms
122. GOS contracts: disputes and enforcement
123. Persons performing primary ophthalmic services
124. Assistance and support: primary ophthalmic services
125. Local Optical Committees
126. Arrangements for pharmaceutical services
127. Arrangements for additional pharmaceutical services
128. Terms and conditions, etc
129. Regulations as to pharmaceutical services
130. Regulations under section 129: appeals, etc
131. Power to charge
132. Persons authorised to provide pharmaceutical services
133. Inadequate provision of pharmaceutical services
Local pharmaceutical services: pilot schemes
134. Pilot schemes
135. Making pilot schemes
136. Designation of priority neighbourhoods or premises
137. Reviews of pilot schemes
138. Variation and termination of pilot schemes
139. NHS contracts and the provision of piloted services
140. Funding of preparatory work
141. Application of this Act
142. Premises from which piloted services may be provided
143. Control of entry regulations
Local pharmaceutical services: LPS schemes
144. Local pharmaceutical services schemes
Local pharmaceutical services: miscellaneous
145. Application of enactments
146. Persons performing local pharmaceutical services
147. Assistance and support: local pharmaceutical services
Conditional inclusion in pharmaceutical lists, and supplementary lists
148. Conditional inclusion in pharmaceutical lists
149. Supplementary lists
150. Further provision about regulations under section 149
151. Disqualification of practitioners
152. Contingent removal
153. Fraud and unsuitability cases: supplementary
154. Suspension
155. Suspension pending appeal
156. Effect of suspension
157. Review of decisions
158. Appeals
159. National disqualification
160. Notification of decisions
161. Withdrawal from lists
162. Regulations about decisions under this Chapter
163. Corresponding provisions in Scotland and Northern Ireland
164. Remuneration for persons providing pharmaceutical services
165. Section 164: supplementary
166. Indemnity cover
167. Local Pharmaceutical Committees
168. Use of accommodation: provision of pharmaceutical services and local pharmaceutical services
169. FHSAA
170. FHSAA: financial provisions
171. Conditions of use of services of persons under section 169
172. Charges for drugs, medicines or appliances, or pharmaceutical services
173. Exemptions from general charging
174. Pre-payment certificates
175. Charges in respect of non-residents
176. Dental charging
177. Exemptions from dental charging
178. Charges, recovery of payments and penalties
179. Charges for optical appliances
180. Payments in respect of costs of optical appliances
181. Section 180: supplementary
182. Remission and repayment of charges
183. Payment of travelling expenses
184. Sections 182 and 183: supplementary
185. Charges for more expensive supplies
186. Charges for repairs and replacements in certain cases
187. Charges for designated services or facilities
188. Sums otherwise payable to those providing services
189. Hospital accommodation on part payment
190. Expenses payable by employed patients
191. Recovery of charges
192. Recovery of charges and payments in relation to goods and services
193. Penalties relating to charges
194. Offences relating to charges
195. Compulsory disclosure of documents
196. Persons and bodies about which provision is made by this Part
197. Notice requiring production of documents
198. Production of documents
199. Delegation of functions
200. Code of practice relating to delegated functions
201. Disclosure of information
202. Protection of personal information disclosed for purposes of proceedings
203. Manner in which disclosure notice may be served
204. Offences in connection with production of documents
205. Offences relating to disclosure or use of information
206. Offences by bodies corporate etc
207. Offences committed by partnerships and other unincorporated associations
208. Penalties for offences under this Part: transitional modification
209. Orders and regulations under this Part
210. Interpretation of this Part
211. Acquisition, use and maintenance of property
212. Special trustees for a university hospital or teaching hospital
213. Transfers of trust property
214. Transfer of functions and property to or from special trustees
215. Trustees and property under section 222
216. Application of trust property: further provisions
217. Trusts: supplementary provisions
218. Private trusts for hospitals
Property transferred under the National Health Service Act 1946
219. Transferred property free of trusts
220. Trust property previously held for general hospital purposes
221. Voluntary hospitals
222. Power to raise money
223. Public-private partnerships
224. Means of meeting expenditure of Strategic Health Authorities out of public funds
225. Means of meeting expenditure of Special Health Authorities out of public funds
226. Financial duties of Strategic Health Authorities and Special Health Authorities
227. Resource limits for Strategic Health Authorities and Special Health Authorities
228. Public funding of Primary Care Trusts
229. Financial duties of Primary Care Trusts
230. Resource limits for Primary Care Trusts
231. Further provision about the expenditure of Primary Care Trusts
232. Accounts and audit
233. Allowances for members of certain bodies
234. Special arrangement as to payment of remuneration
235. Superannuation of officers of certain hospitals
236. Payments for certain medical examinations
237. Establishment of Patients' Forums
238. Additional functions of PCT Patients' Forums
239. Entry and inspection of premises
240. Annual reports
241. Further provision about Patients' Forums
242. Public involvement and consultation
243. The Commission for Patient and Public Involvement in Health
244. Functions of overview and scrutiny committees
245. Joint overview and scrutiny committees etc
246. Overview and scrutiny committees: exempt information
247. Application to the City of London
248. Independent advocacy services
249. Joint working with the prison service
250. Secretary of State’s standing advisory committees
251. Control of patient information
252. Patient Information Advisory Group
253. Emergency powers
254. Local social service authorities
255. Supplies not readily obtainable
256. Power of Primary Care Trusts to make payments towards expenditure on community services
257. Payments in respect of voluntary organisations under section 256
258. University clinical teaching and research
259. Sale of medical practices
260. Control of maximum price of medical supplies other than health service medicines
261. Powers relating to voluntary schemes
262. Power to control prices
263. Statutory schemes
264. Statutory schemes: supplementary
265. Enforcement
266. Controls: supplementary
267. Permission for use of facilities in private practice
268. Persons displaced by health service development
269. Special notices of births and deaths
270. Provision of information by Registrar General
271. Territorial limit of exercise of functions
272. Orders, regulations, rules and directions
273. Further provision about orders and directions under this Act
274. Supplementary regulatory powers
275. Interpretation
276. Index of defined expressions
277. Commencement
278. Short title, extent and application
Schedule 1: Further provision about the Secretary of State and services under this Act
Schedule 2: Strategic Health Authorities
Schedule 3: Primary Care Trusts
Part 1: Constitution and membership
Part 2: PCT orders
Part 3: Powers and duties
Part 4: Transfer of property
Part 5: Transfer of staff
Schedule 4: NHS trusts established under section 25
Part 1: Constitution, establishment, etc
Part 2: Powers and duties
Part 3: Dissolution
Schedule 5: Financial provision about NHS trusts established under section 25
Schedule 6: Special Health Authorities established under section 28
Schedule 7: Constitution of public benefit corporations
Schedule 8: Independent Regulator of NHS foundation Trusts
Schedule 9: NHS foundation trusts: transfer of staff
Schedule 10: Audit of accounts of NHS foundation trusts
Schedule 11: Pilot schemes
Schedule 12: LPS schemes
Schedule 13: The Family Health Services Appeal Authority
Schedule 14: Further provision about the expenditure of Primary Care Trusts
Schedule 15: Accounts and audit
Schedule 16: The Commission for Patient and Public Involvement in Health
Schedule 17: Exempt information relating to health services
Part 1: Descriptions of exempt information
Schedule 18: Section 75 arrangements: transfer of staff
Schedule 19: Further provision about standing advisory committees
Schedule 20: Further provision about local social services authorities
Schedule 21: Prohibition of sale of medical practices
Schedule 22: Control of maximum prices for medical supplies
1 Secretary of State’s duty to promote health service
(3) The services so provided must be free of charge except in so far as the making and recovery of charges is expressly provided for by or under any enactment, whenever passed.
2 Secretary of State’s general power
(a) provide such services as he considers appropriate for the purpose of discharging any duty imposed on him by this Act, and
(b) do anything else which is calculated to facilitate, or is conducive or incidental to, the discharge of such a duty.
(a) the Secretary of State’s powers apart from this section,
(b) Chapter 1 of Part 7 (pharmaceutical services).
3 Secretary of State’s duty as to provision of certain services
(1) The Secretary of State must provide throughout England, to such extent as he considers necessary to meet all reasonable requirements—
(2) For the purposes of the duty in subsection (1), services provided under—
(a) section 83(2) (primary medical services), section 99(2) (primary dental services) or section 115(4) (primary ophthalmic services), or
4 High security psychiatric services
(1) The Secretary of State’s duty under section 1 includes a duty to provide hospital accommodation and services for persons who—
(a) are liable to be detained under the Mental Health Act 1983 (c. 20), and
(2) The hospital accommodation and services mentioned in subsection (1) are referred to in this section and paragraph 15 of Schedule 4 (NHS trusts) as “high security psychiatric services”.
(3) High security psychiatric services may be provided only at hospital premises at which services are provided only for the persons mentioned in subsection (1).
(4) “Hospital premises” means—
(b) any part of a hospital which is treated as a separate unit.
6 Performance of functions outside England
(1) The Secretary of State may provide or secure the provision of anything mentioned in section 3(1) outside England.
(2) The Secretary of State’s functions may be performed outside England and Wales, in so far as they relate to—
(a) holidays for patients,
(b) the transfer of patients to or from Scotland, Northern Ireland, the Isle of Man or the Channel Islands, or
(c) the return of patients who have received treatment in England and Wales, to countries or territories outside the British Islands (including for this purpose the Republic of Ireland).
7 Distribution of health service functions
(1) The Secretary of State may direct a Strategic Health Authority, a Primary Care Trust or a Special Health Authority to exercise any of his functions relating to the health service which are specified in the directions.
(2) The Secretary of State may direct a Special Health Authority to exercise any functions of a Strategic Health Authority or a Primary Care Trust which are specified in the directions.
(3) The functions which may be specified in directions include functions under enactments relating to mental health and care homes.
8 Secretary of State’s directions to health service bodies
9 NHS contracts
(1) In this Act, an NHS contract is an arrangement under which one health service body (“the commissioner”) arranges for the provision to it by another health service body (“the provider”) of goods or services which it reasonably requires for the purposes of its functions.
(a) a Strategic Health Authority,
(d) a Special Health Authority,
(e) a Local Health Board,
(f) a Health Board constituted under section 2 of the National Health Service (Scotland) Act 1978 (c. 29),
(g) a Health and Social Services Board constituted under the Health and Personal Social Services (Northern Ireland) Order 1972 (S.I. 1972/1265 (N.I.14)),
(h) the Common Services Agency for the Scottish Health Service,
(i) the Wales Centre for Health,
(j) the Health Protection Agency,
(k) the Commission for Healthcare Audit and Inspection,
(l) the Scottish Dental Practice Board,
(m) the Secretary of State,
(n) the Welsh Ministers,
(o) the Northern Ireland Central Services Agency for the Health and Social Services established under the Health and Personal Social Services (Northern Ireland) Order 1972,
(p) a special health and social services agency established under the Health and Personal Social Services (Special Agencies) (Northern Ireland) Order 1990 (S.I. 1990/247 (N.I.3)),
(q) a Health and Social Services trust established under the Health and Personal Social Services (Northern Ireland) Order 1991 (S.I. 1991/194 (N.I.1)),
(r) the Department of Health, Social Services and Public Safety.
(5) Whether or not an arrangement which constitutes an NHS contract would apart from this subsection be a contract in law, it must not be regarded for any purpose as giving rise to contractual rights or liabilities.
(6) But if any dispute arises with respect to such an arrangement, either party may refer the matter to the Secretary of State for determination under this section.
(7) If, in the course of negotiations intending to lead to an arrangement which will be an NHS contract, it appears to a health service body—
(8) Where a reference is made to the Secretary of State under subsection (6) or (7), he may determine the matter himself or appoint a person to consider and determine it in accordance with regulations.
(9) “The appropriate person” means the Secretary of State or the person appointed under subsection (8).
(10) By the determination of a reference under subsection (7) the appropriate person may specify terms to be included in the proposed arrangement and may direct that it be proceeded with.
(11) A determination of a reference under subsection (6) may contain such directions (including directions as to payment) as the appropriate person considers appropriate to resolve the matter in dispute.
(12) The appropriate person may by the determination in relation to an NHS contract vary the terms of the arrangement or bring it to an end (but this does not affect the generality of the power of determination under subsection (6)).
(13) Where an arrangement is so varied or brought to an end—
(b) the directions included in the determination by virtue of subsection (11) may contain such provisions as the appropriate person considers appropriate in order to give effect to the variation or to bring the arrangement to an end.
10 Provision for bodies in Northern Ireland
(1) Subsection (2) applies where a Health and Social Services Board constituted under the Health and Personal Social Services (Northern Ireland) Order 1972 (S.I. 1972/1265 (N.I.14)) or a body mentioned in paragraph (o), (p), (q) or (r) of section 9(4) is a party or prospective party to an arrangement or proposed arrangement which—
(a) falls within the definition of NHS contract in section 9(1), and
(b) also falls within the definition of HSS contract in Article 8 of the Health and Personal Social Services (Northern Ireland) Order 1991 (S.I. 1991/194 (N.I.1)).
(2) Subsections (5) to (13) of section 9 apply in relation to the arrangement or proposed arrangement with the substitution for references to the Secretary of State of references to the Secretary of State and the Department of Health, Social Services and Public Safety acting jointly.
11 Arrangements to be treated as NHS contracts
(1) This section applies to any arrangement under which a Strategic Health Authority, a Primary Care Trust or such other health service body as may be prescribed arrange for the provision to it—
(a) by a contractor under a general ophthalmic services contract,
(b) by a person on an ophthalmic list,
(c) by a person on a pharmaceutical list, or
(d) by a person who has entered into a pharmaceutical care services contract under section 17Q of the National Health Service (Scotland) Act 1978 (c. 29),
(2) The goods or services are those that the body reasonably requires for the purposes of its functions, other than functions under—
(a) section 115 (primary ophthalmic services),
(b) Chapter 1 or 2 of Part 7 (pharmaceutical services and local pharmaceutical services under pilot schemes), or
(c) Part 6 of, or Chapter 1 or 2 of Part 7 of, the National Health Service (Wales) Act 2006 (c. 42) (general ophthalmic services and pharmaceutical services and local pharmaceutical services under pilot schemes).
(3) Any such arrangement must be treated as an NHS contract for the purposes of section 9 (other than subsections (7) and (10)).
(4) “Health service body” means a body which is a health service body for the purposes of section 9.
(5) “Ophthalmic list” means a list published in accordance with regulations made under—
(a) section 72(1)(a) of the National Health Service (Wales) Act 2006,
(b) section 26(2)(a) of the National Health Service (Scotland) Act 1978, or
(c) Article 62(2)(a) of the Health and Personal Social Services (Northern Ireland) Order 1972 (S.I. 1972/1265 (N.I.14)).
(6) The reference to a list published in accordance with regulations made under paragraph (a) of section 26(2) of the National Health Service (Scotland) Act 1978 is a reference to the first part of the list (referred to in sub-paragraph (i) of that paragraph) which is published in accordance with regulations under that paragraph.
(7) “Pharmaceutical list” includes a list published in accordance with regulations made under—
(a) section 83(2)(a) of the National Health Service (Wales) Act 2006, or
(b) Article 63(2A)(a) of the Health and Personal Social Services (Northern Ireland) Order 1972.
12 Secretary of State’s arrangements with other bodies
(1) The Secretary of State may arrange with any person or body to provide, or assist in providing, any service under this Act.
(3) The Secretary of State may make available any facilities provided by him for any service under this Act—
(a) to any person or body carrying out any arrangements under subsection (1), or
(b) to any voluntary organisation eligible for assistance under section 64 or section 65 of the Health Services and Public Health Act 1968 (c. 46).
(4) Where facilities are made available under subsection (3), the Secretary of State may make available the services of any person employed in connection with the facilities by—
(b) a Strategic Health Authority,
(d) a Special Health Authority, or
(e) a Local Health Board.
(5) Powers under this section may be exercised on such terms as may be agreed, including terms as to the making of payments by or to the Secretary of State.
(6) Goods or materials may be made available either temporarily or permanently.
(7) Any power to supply goods or materials under this section includes—
(a) a power to purchase and store them, and
(b) a power to arrange with third parties for the supply of goods or materials by those third parties.
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