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Health and Social Care Bill

This is the text of the Health and Social Care Bill, as presented to the House of Commons on 20th December 2000.

 
EXPLANATORY NOTES

Explanatory Notes to the Bill, prepared by the Department of Health, are published separately as Bill 9- EN.


EUROPEAN CONVENTION ON HUMAN RIGHTS

Mr Secretary Milburn has made the following statement under section 19(1)(a) of the Human Rights Act 1998:

In my view the provisions of the Health and Social Care Bill are compatible with the Convention rights.


 
  
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ARRANGEMENT OF CLAUSES

PART I
NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE
Health service funding
Clause 
1.Determination of allotments to and resource limits for Health Authorities and Primary Care Trusts.
2.Payments relating to past performance.
3.Supplementary payments to NHS trusts and Primary Care Trusts.
4.Public-private partnerships.
5.Income generation.

Terms of employment of health service employees
6.Terms and conditions of employment by health service bodies.

Scrutiny of health service provision
7.Functions of overview and scrutiny committees.
8.Overview and scrutiny committees: exempt information.
9.Public involvement and consultation.
10.Establishment of Patients' Forums.
11.Patients' Forums: entry and inspection of premises.
12.Patients' Forums: annual reports.
13.Patients' Forums: supplementary.
14.Abolition of Community Health Councils in England.
15.Power to abolish Community Health Councils in Wales.

Intervention powers
16.Intervention orders.

Abolition of Medical Practices Committee and National Health Service Tribunal
17.Abolition of Medical Practices Committee.
18.Vacancies for medical practitioners.
19.Abolition of NHS Tribunal.

General and personal medical services, general dental services, general ophthalmic services and pharmaceutical services
20.Remuneration of general medical practitioners.
21.Out of hours medical services.
22.Unsuitability for inclusion in medical, dental, ophthalmic and pharmaceutical etc. lists.
23.Dental corporations.
24.Declaration of financial interests, gifts, etc.
25.Supplementary lists.
26.Suspension and disqualification of practitioners.

Personal medical services and personal dental services
27.PMS and PDS lists.

The Family Health Services Appeal Authority
28.The Family Health Services Appeal Authority.

PART II
PHARMACEUTICAL SERVICES
CHAPTER I
LOCAL PHARMACEUTICAL SERVICES
Preparation and making of pilot schemes
29.Pilot schemes.
30.Making pilot schemes.
31.Designation of priority neighbourhoods or premises.

Reviews, variation and termination of pilot schemes
32.Reviews of pilot schemes.
33.Variation and termination of pilot schemes.

NHS contracts and financial provisions
34.NHS contracts.
35.Funding of preparatory work.
36.Charges, recovery of payments and penalties.

General
37.Effect of the 1977 Act.
38.Control of entry regulations.

Assessing the result of pilot schemes
39.Assessing pilot schemes.

Provision for local pharmaceutical schemes
40.Provision for LPS schemes.

Application of 1977 Act and other enactments
41.Application of enactments.

CHAPTER II
CHANGES TO EXISTING ARRANGEMENTS
England and Wales
42.Dispensing of NHS prescriptions and provision of pharmaceutical services.
43.Remote provision of pharmaceutical, etc. services.

Scotland
44.Dispensing of NHS prescriptions.

PART III
CARE TRUSTS
45.Care Trusts where voluntary partnership arrangements.
46.Care Trusts where directed partnership arrangements.
47.Further provisions about directions in connection with Care Trusts.

PART IV
SOCIAL CARE
Nursing care
48.Exclusion of nursing care from community care services.

Preserved rights
49.Preserved rights: transfer to local authorities of responsibilities as to accommodation.
50.Preserved rights: disclosure of information.
51.Preserved rights: alignment of social security benefits.

Measures to increase availability of Part III accommodation
52.Disregarding of resources when determining need for residential accommodation.
53.Funding by resident etc. of more expensive accommodation.
54.Power for local authorities to take charges on land instead of contributions.
55.Cross-border placements.

Direct payments
56.Direct payments.
57.Direct payments in respect of children.

Supplementary
58.Interpretation of Part IV.

PART V
MISCELLANEOUS AND SUPPLEMENTARY
Patient information
59.Control of patient information.

Prescribing rights
60.Extension of prescribing rights.

Supplementary
61.Regulations and orders.
62.Interpretation.
63.Minor and consequential amendments and repeals.
64.Powers of National Assembly for Wales under amended Acts.
65.Financial provisions.
66.Short title, commencement and extent.
 

SCHEDULES:
    Schedule 1-Exempt information relating to health services.
    Part I-Descriptions of exempt information.
    Part II-Qualifications.
    Part III-Interpretation.
    Schedule 2-Pilot Schemes.
    Schedule 3-LPS Schemes.
    Schedule 4-Minor and consequential amendments.
    Part I-National Health Service.
    Part II-Social Care.
    Schedule 5-Repeals.
    Part I-National Health Service.
    Part II-Pharmaceutical services.
    Part III-Social Care.
 


 
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