Quality
51Duty of quality
After section 12G of the 1978 Act there is inserted—
“Quality
12HDuty of quality
(1)It shall be the duty of each Health Board, Special Health Board and NHS trust and of the Agency to put and keep in place arrangements for the purpose of monitoring and improving the quality of health care which it provides to individuals.
(2)The reference in subsection (1) to health care which a body there mentioned provides to individuals includes health care which the body provides jointly with another person to individuals.
(3)In this section “health care” means services for or in connection with the prevention, diagnosis or treatment of illness.”