The National Health Service Bodies and Local Authorities Partnership Arrangements (Wales) Regulations 2000

Exercise of functions by a National Health Service body

8.—(1) Subject to the following provisions of this regulation, the partners may enter into arrangements for the exercise by National Health Service bodies of health-related functions in conjunction with the exercise by such bodies of their National Health Service functions.

(2) Where the partners have decided to enter into arrangements under paragraph (1) the agreement must be in writing and must specify —

(a) the agreed aims and outcomes of the arrangements;

(b) the payments to be made by local authorities to the National Health Service bodies and how those payments may be varied;

(c) the health-related functions and National Health Service functions the exercise of which are the subject of the arrangements;

(d) the persons in respect of whom and the kinds of services in respect of which the functions referred to in sub-paragraph (c) may be exercised;

(e) the staff, goods, services or accommodation to be provided by the partners in connection with the arrangements;

(f) the duration of the arrangements and provision for the review or variation or termination of the arrangements; and

(g) the arrangements in place for monitoring the exercise by the National Health Service bodies of the functions referred to in sub-paragraph (c).

(3) The National Health Service bodies shall report to the local authorities, both quarterly and annually, on the exercise of the health-related functions which are the subject of the arrangements.