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Make
provision about sleep apnoea and related medical conditions. |
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Be
it enacted by the Queen’s most Excellent Majesty,
by and with the advice and |
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consent of the Lords Spiritual
and Temporal, and Commons, in this present |
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Parliament assembled, and
by the authority of the same, as follows:— |
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Report
by the National Institute for Clinical Excellence |
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Within 12 months of this Act coming
into force the National Institute for |
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Clinical Excellence shall publish
clinical guidelines in respect of the clinical |
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management of sleep apnoea and
related medical conditions. |
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Duty
of Primary Care Trusts |
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Each Primary Care Trust shall
implement the clinical guidelines published by |
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the National Institute for Clinical
Excellence under section 1 within 12 months |
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There
shall be paid out of money provided by Parliament— |
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(a) |
any
expenditure of the Secretary of State in consequence of this Act;
and |
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(b) |
any
increase attributable to this Act in the sums which under any
other Act |
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are
payable out of money so provided. |
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(1) |
This Act may be cited as
the Sleep Apnoea Act 2004. |
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This Act applies to England. |
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