Citation, commencement and interpretation1

1

These Regulations may be cited as the National Health Service (Quality Accounts) Regulations 2010 and shall come into force on 1st April 2010.

2

In these Regulations—

  • “the 2006 Act” means the National Health Service Act 2006;

  • “the 2009 Act” means the Health Act 2009;

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  • F3...

  • F5...

  • F4“integrated care board” means an integrated care board established under Chapter A3 of Part 2 of the National Health Service Act 2006;

  • F6“NHS England” means the body corporate established under section 1H of the National Health Service Act 2006;

  • “relevant document” means a document which must be published under section 8(1) or (3) of the 2009 Act.

3

For the purposes of these Regulations—

a

“F1relevant health services” does not include the services exempted by regulation 2;

b

a body or person sub-contracts services where—

i

in the case of a body listed in section 8(2) of the 2009 Act, they make arrangements for a person not listed in section 8(2) or (3) of that Act to provide those services; and

ii

in the case of a person listed in section 8(3) of the 2009 Act, they make arrangements as mentioned in section 2(5)(a) of that Act for another person to provide those services; and

c

references to F2relevant health services provided by a body or person are a reference to—

i

in the case of a body listed in section 8(2) of the 2009 Act, any F2relevant health services provided by that body; and

ii

in the case of a person listed in section 8(3) of the 2009 Act, any F2relevant health services provided by that person as mentioned in section 2(4)(a) or (b) of the 2009 Act, or which that person assists in providing as mentioned in section 2(4)(b) of that Act.