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National Health Service Reform and Health Care Professions Act 2002

2002 CHAPTER 17

CONTENTS

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  1. Part 1

    National Health Service, etc

    1. NHS bodies and their functions: England

      1. 1. English Health Authorities: change of name

      2. 2. Primary Care Trusts

      3. 3. Directions: distribution of functions

      4. 4. Personal medical services, personal dental services and local pharmaceutical services

      5. 5. Local Representative Committees

    2. NHS bodies and their functions: Wales

      1. 6. Local Health Boards

    3. Financial arrangements: England and Wales

      1. 7. Funding of Strategic Health Authorities and Health Authorities

      2. 8. Funding of Primary Care Trusts

      3. 9. Funding of Local Health Boards

      4. 10. Expenditure of NHS bodies

    4. Quality

      1. 11. Duty of quality

      2. 12. Further functions of the Commission for Health Improvement

      3. 13. Commission for Health Improvement: inspections and investigations

      4. 14. Commission for Health Improvement: constitution

    5. Patient and public involvement

      1. 15. Establishment of Patients' Forums

      2. 16. Additional functions of PCT Patients' Forums

      3. 17. Entry and inspection of premises

      4. 18. Annual reports

      5. 19. Supplementary

      6. 20. The Commission for Patient and Public Involvement in Health

      7. 21. Overview and scrutiny committees

      8. 22. Abolition of Community Health Councils in England

    6. Joint working

      1. 23. Joint working with the prison service

      2. 24. Health and well-being strategies in Wales

  2. Part 2

    Health Care Professions

    1. The Council for the Regulation of Health Care Professionals

      1. 25. The Council for the Regulation of Health Care Professionals

      2. 26. Powers and duties of the Council: general

      3. 27. Regulatory bodies and the Council

      4. 28. Complaints about regulatory bodies

      5. 29. Reference of disciplinary cases by Council to court

    2. Appeals

      1. 30. Medical practitioners

      2. 31. Dentists

      3. 32. Opticians

      4. 33. Osteopaths

      5. 34. Chiropractors

    3. The pharmacy profession

      1. 35. Regulation of the profession of pharmacy

  3. Part 3

    Miscellaneous

    1. 36. Amendments of health service legislation in connection with consolidation

    2. 37. Minor and consequential amendments and repeals

    3. 38. Regulations and orders

    4. 39. Supplementary and consequential provision etc

    5. 40. Wales

    6. 41. Financial provisions

    7. 42. Short title, interpretation, commencement and extent

    1. Schedule 1

      English Health Authorities: change of name

      1. Part 1

        Amendments of 1977 Act

      2. Part 2

        Amendments of other Acts

    2. Schedule 2

      Reallocation of functions of Health Authorities to Primary Care Trusts

      1. Part 1

        Amendments of 1977 Act

      2. Part 2

        Amendments of other Acts

    3. Schedule 3

      Amendments relating to Personal Medical Services and Personal Dental Services

      1. Part 1

        Amendments of the National Health Service (Primary Care) Act 1997

      2. Part 2

        Amendments of other Acts

    4. Schedule 4

      Local Health Boards

    5. Schedule 5

      Amendments relating to Local Health Boards

    6. Schedule 6

      The Commission for Patient and Public Involvement in Health

    7. Schedule 7

      The Council for the Regulation of Health Care Professionals

    8. Schedule 8

      Minor and consequential amendments

    9. Schedule 9

      Repeals

      1. Part 1

        National Health Service

      2. Part 2

        Health care professions

      3. Part 3

        Miscellaneous

An Act to amend the law about the national health service; to establish and make provision in connection with a Commission for Patient and Public Involvement in Health; to make provision in relation to arrangements for joint working between NHS bodies and the prison service, and between NHS bodies and local authorities in Wales; to make provision in connection with the regulation of health care professions; and for connected purposes.

[25th June 2002]

Be it enacted by the Queen’s most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:—

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