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An Act to consolidate certain enactments relating to the health service. Citation: 2006 c. 41: Territorial extent England and Wales, [2] except sections 261 to 266, which also extend to Scotland and Northern Ireland. [3] Dates; Royal assent: 8 November 2006: Commencement: 1 March 2007, subject to section 277 [4] History of passage through ...
The National Health Service Act 1946 (9 & 10 Geo. 6. c. c. 81) came into effect on 5 July 1948 and created the National Health Service in England and Wales thus being the first implementation of the Beveridge model .
The National Health Service and Community Care Act 1990 (c. 19 [1]) introduced an internal market into the supply of healthcare in the United Kingdom, making the state an 'enabler' rather than a supplier of health and social care provision.
The Care Quality Commission (2009-today) inspects hospitals, GPs and homes, and appoints the director of Healthwatch England which organises 148 Healthwatch groups. Healthcare in Greater Manchester National Health Service Act 1966 ( c 8 ) s 10 required GP remuneration to be partly linked to the number of patients they saw.
It was created by the Health and Social Care (Community Health and Standards) Act 2003. [1] The Healthcare Commission took over the role of the Commission for Health Improvement (CHI) on the 1 April 2004 and also assumed some of the responsibilities of the National Care Standards Commission (NCSC) and the Audit Commission , as well as a number ...
[6] and patient and public involvement forums [7] The guidance for these organisations was delivered to councils in 2003. [8] The act provided for primary care trusts (PCTs) and NHS trusts to be designated as care trusts in cases where they had local authority health-related functions delegated to them by agreement. [9]
In April 2013 a new system was established as a result of the Health and Social Care Act 2012. The NHS budget is largely in the hands of a new body, NHS England. NHS England commissions specialist services and primary care. Acute services and community care are commissioned by local clinical commissioning groups (CCGs) led by GPs. From April ...
The act was an important part of the explanation for the deterioration in performance of the NHS as a whole, the report said. "Rather than liberating the NHS, as it had promised, the Health and Social Care Act 2012 imprisoned more than a million NHS staff in a broken system for the best part of a decade". [70]