SCHEDULES

SCHEDULE 4E+WIntegrated care system: minor and consequential amendments

National Health Service Act 2006E+W

135(1)Schedule 1 (further provision about services) is amended as follows.

(2)For paragraph 9 substitute—

9(1)An integrated care board may make arrangements for the provision of vehicles (including wheelchairs) for people for whom the board has responsibility and who appear to it to have a physical impairment which has a substantial and long-term adverse effect on their ability to carry out normal day-to-day activities.

(2)For the purposes of this paragraph an integrated care board has responsibility for—

(a)the group of people for whom it has core responsibility (see section 14Z31), and

(b)such other people as may be prescribed (whether generally or in relation to a prescribed vehicle).

(3)In paragraph 10—

(a)in sub-paragraph (2), for “clinical commissioning group” substitute “integrated care board”;

(b)in sub-paragraph (3), for “A clinical commissioning group” substitute “An integrated care board”;

(c)in sub-paragraph (5), for “clinical commissioning group” substitute “integrated care board”.

(4)In paragraph 13—

(a)in sub-paragraph (1)—

(i)for “a clinical commissioning group” substitute “an integrated care board”;

(ii)in paragraph (b), for “clinical commissioning group” substitute “integrated care board”;

(b)in sub-paragraph (3), for “a clinical commissioning group” substitute “an integrated care board”.