The National Health Service (Quality Accounts) Regulations 2010

Citation, commencement and interpretation

1.—(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;

“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) “NHS services”(1) 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 NHS 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 NHS services provided by that body; and

(ii) in the case of a person listed in section 8(3) of the 2009 Act, any NHS 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.

(1)

“NHS services” otherwise has the meaning given in section 2(7) of the Health Act 2009; see section 8(6) of that Act.