National Health Service Act 2006 (Version in vigour from 2024-02-28 to )

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National Health Service Act 2006
Part 1: Promotion and provision of the health service in England

The Secretary of State and the health service in England

1: Secretary of State's duty to promote comprehensive health service
1A: Duty as to improvement in quality of services
1B: Duty as to the NHS Constitution
1C: Duty as to reducing inequalities
1D: Duty as to promoting autonomy
1E: Duty as to research: In exercising functions in relation to the health service, the Secretary of State must promote—
1F: Duty as to education and training
1G: Secretary of State's duty as to reporting on and reviewing treatment of providers

Role of the Board in the health service in England

1H: The National Health Service Commissioning Board and its general functions

Role of clinical commissioning groups in the health service in England

1I: Clinical commissioning groups and their general functions

General power

2: General power

Provision for protection or improvement of public health

2A: Secretary of State's duty as to protection of public health
2B: Functions of local authorities and Secretary of State as to improvement of public health

Arrangements for the provision of certain health services

3: Duties of clinical commissioning groups as to commissioning certain health services
3A: Power of clinical commissioning groups to commission certain health services
3B: Secretary of State's power to require Board to commission services
4: High security psychiatric services
5: Other services

Provision of services otherwise than in England

6: Performance of functions outside England
6A: Reimbursement of cost of services provided in another EEA state
6B: Prior authorisation for the purposes of section 6A
6BA: Reimbursement of cost of services provided in another EEA state where expenditure incurred on or after 25 October 2013.
6BB: Prior authorisation for the purposes of section 6BA

Regulations as to the exercise of functions

6C: Regulations as to the exercise by local authorities of certain public health functions
6D: Regulations relating to EU obligations
6E: Regulations as to the exercise of functions by the Board or clinical commissioning groups

Functions of Special Health Authorities

7: Functions of Special Health Authorities

Exercise of Secretary of State's public health functions

7A: Exercise of Secretary of State's public health functions

Directions to certain NHS bodies

8: Secretary of State's directions to certain health service bodies

NHS contracts

9: NHS contracts
10: Provision for bodies in Northern Ireland
10A: Provision for bodies in Scotland
11: Arrangements to be treated as NHS contracts

Arrangements with other bodies

12: Secretary of State's arrangements with other bodies
12ZA: Commissioning arrangements by the Board or clinical commissioning groups

Direct payments for health care

12A: Direct payments for health care
12B: Regulations about direct payments
12C: Direct payments pilot schemes
12D: Arrangements with other bodies relating to direct payments

Miscellaneous

12E: Secretary of State's duty as respects variation in provision of health services

Part 2: Health service bodies

Secretary of State's mandate to the Board

13A: Mandate to Board
13B: The mandate: supplemental provision

General duties of the Board

13C: Duty to promote NHS Constitution
13D: Duty as to effectiveness, efficiency etc.
13E: Duty as to improvement in quality of services
13F: Duty as to promoting autonomy
13G: Duty as to reducing inequalities: The Board must, in the exercise of its functions, have regard to the need to—
13H: Duty to promote involvement of each patient: The Board must, in the exercise of its functions, promote the involvement of patients, and their carers and representatives (if any), in decisions which relate to—
13I: Duty as to patient choice
13J: Duty to obtain appropriate advice: The Board must obtain advice appropriate for enabling it effectively to discharge its functions from persons who (taken together) have a broad range of professional expertise in—
13K: Duty to promote innovation
13L: Duty in respect of research: The Board must, in the exercise of its functions, promote—
13M: Duty as to promoting education and training
13N: Duty as to promoting integration
13O: Duty to have regard to impact on services in certain areas
13P: Duty as respects variation in provision of health services: The Board must not exercise its functions for the purpose of causing a variation in the proportion of services provided as part of the health service that is provided by persons of a particular description if that description is by reference to—

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