Part 2Standards
C3Chapter 2NHS health care: introductory
Annotations:
Modifications etc. (not altering text)
I1C1C245Quality in health care
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In this Part “health care” means—
a
services provided to individuals for or in connection with the prevention, diagnosis or treatment of illness; and
b
the promotion and protection of public health.
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In subsection (2)(a), “illness” has the meaning given by F1section 275 of the 2006 Act.
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In this Chapter references to the provision of health care for a body include in the case of an English NHS body references to the provision of health care in respect of which direct payments are made by that body under section 12A(1), or under regulations under section 12A(4), of the National Health Service Act 2006.
Pt. 2 Ch. 2 modified by 2004 c. 17, s. 10(4) (as substituted (1.10.2010) by The Health and Social Care Act 2008 (Consequential Amendments No.2) Order 2010 (S.I. 2010/813), arts. 1(1), 15)