National Health Service (Amended Duties and Powers) Bill (HC Bill 18)

Contents

1. Part 1

   Amendments to sections within part 1 of the National Health Service Act
   2006, as amended by the Health and Social Care Act 2012

   1. 1. Duty on the Secretary of State to promote comprehensive health service based
      on social solidarity

   2. 2. Exercise of the Secretary of State‘s powers

   3. 3. Duty on the Secretary of State regarding provision of certain services

   4. 4. Provision of high security psychiatric services

   5. 5. Power of Secretary of State to direct certain health service bodies

   6. 6. NHS Contracts

2. Part 2

   Amendments to the financial powers of NHS Foundation Trusts and NHS
   Trusts, as amended by the Health and Social Care Act 2012

   1. 7. Provision of goods and services by NHS foundation trusts

   2. 8. NHS income and provision of goods and services

3. Part 3

   Amendment of provisions in the Health and Social Care Act 2012 relating to
   competition and procurement in the health service and connected
   amendments

   1. 9. NHS trusts provision of non-health services

   2. 10. Repeals

   3. 11. Exemptions from the Competition Act 1998

   4. 12. Mergers of NHS trusts or foundation trusts to require the consent of the
      Secretary of State

   5. 13. Regulations requiring NHS trust and foundation trust mergers to be in
      patients’ interests

4. Part 4

   The NHS and national or international agreements

   1. 14. NHS exemptions from proposed Transatlantic Trade and Investment
      Partnership Treaty

5. Part 5

   General

   1. 15. Extent, citation and commencement