Part I Organisation
F2 Quality
12HF1Duty of quality.
1
It shall be the duty of each Health Board, Special Health Board and NHS trust and of the Agency to put and keep in place arrangements for the purpose of monitoring and improving the quality of health care which it provides to individuals.
2
The reference in subsection (1) to health care which a body there mentioned provides to individuals includes health care which the body provides jointly with another person to individuals.
3
In this section “health care” means services for or in connection with the prevention, diagnosis or treatment of illness.
12IF3Duty in relation to governance of staff
It shall be the duty of every Health Board and Special Health Board and of F4HIS and the Agency to put and keep in place arrangements for the purposes of—
a
improving the management of the officers employed by it;
b
monitoring such management; and
c
workforce planning.
S. 12H and cross-heading inserted (1.10.1999) by 1999 c. 8, s. 51; S.S.I. 1999/90, art. 2(a), Sch. 1