The Care and Support (Provision of Health Services) (Wales) Regulations 2015

The specified health body for the purposes of section 47(6) of the 2014 Act

3.—(1) Where a local authority, in reliance on section 47(6) of the 2014 Act, is making arrangements for the provision of accommodation together with nursing care(1) by a registered nurse, the health body from which the local authority must obtain consent is—

(a)where the local authority proposes to accommodate A in Wales, the Local Health Board for the area in which the accommodation is provided;

(b)where the local authority proposes to accommodate A in Scotland or Northern Ireland, the Local Health Board for the area in which that local authority is located;

(c)where the local authority proposes to accommodate A in England, the responsible clinical commissioning group.

(2) For the purposes of this regulation, the responsible clinical commissioning group in respect of any person is the clinical commissioning group which has responsibility for arranging for the provision of nursing care by a registered nurse in respect of that person, pursuant to the provisions of section 3(1), (1A) and (1E) of the National Health Service Act 2006(2) and any regulations made under section 3(1B) or (1D) of that Act.

(1)

“Nursing care” has the meaning given in section 47(10) of the 2014 Act.