The National Health Service (Functions of Strategic Health Authorities and Primary Care Trusts and Administration Arrangements) (England) Amendment (No.2) Regulations 2010
| Jurisdiction | UK Non-devolved |
| Citation | SI 2010/2649 |
| Year | 2010 |
2010 No. 2649
National Health Service, England
The National Health Service (Functions of Strategic Health Authorities and Primary Care Trusts and Administration Arrangements) (England) Amendment (No.2) Regulations 2010
Made 30th October 2010
Laid before Parliament 3rd November 2010
Coming into force 1st December 2010
The Secretary of State for Health makes these Regulations in exercise of the powers conferred by sections 7, 8, 272(7) and 273(1) and (4) of the National Health Service Act 20061.
Citation, commencement and interpretation
1.—(1) These Regulations may be cited as the National Health Service (Functions of Strategic Health Authorities and Primary Care Trusts and Administration Arrangements) (England) Amendment (No.2) Regulations 2010 and come into force on 1st December 2010.
(2) In these Regulations, “the principal Regulations” means the National Health Service (Functions of Strategic Health Authorities and Primary Care Trusts and Administration Arrangements) (England) Regulations 20022.
Amendment of the principal Regulations in relation to responsibility of Primary Care Trusts for continuing health care
2.—(1) The principal Regulations are amended as set out in the following paragraphs.
(2) In regulation 2 (interpretation), in paragraph (1)—
(a)
(a) after the definition of “LIFT” insert—
““NHS-funded nursing care” means nursing care that a Primary Care Trust has determined that a person needs pursuant to direction 2 of the National Health Service (Nursing Care in Residential Accommodation (England) Directions 20073;”; and
(b)
(b) for the definition of “planned service”4substitute—
““planned service” means any service the provision of which is planned and arranged by a Primary Care Trust as part of the health service in response to the results of an assessment of a person’s physical or mental health needs and which is intended to bring about or promote a specific outcome in relation to those needs;”.
(3) In regulation 3 (functions of the Secretary of State exercisable by Strategic Health Authorities and Primary Care Trusts)5—
(a)
(a) for paragraph (7A)(a) substitute—
“(a)
“(a) on or after 1st December 2010, a Primary Care Trust (“the placing PCT”) has made an arrangement in the exercise of its functions under...
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