Part IE+W+S The National Health Service: England and Wales

Local managementE+W

1 Regional and District Health Authorities.E+W

F1(1). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

F1(2). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

(3)F2. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

F1(4). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

F1(5). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

F32. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .E+W

3 Primary and other functions of health authorities etc. and exercise of functions.E+W

F4. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

4 NHS contracts.E+W

F5. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

[F64A Provision of certain services under NHS contracts.E+W

[F7(1)This section applies to any arrangement under which [F8a Strategic Health Authority,][F9a Primary Care Trust,] a Health Authority or such other health service body as may be prescribed arrange for the provision to them—

(a)by a person on an ophthalmic list, F10. . .

[F11(aa)by a contractor under a general ophthalmic services contract, or]

(b)by a person on a pharmaceutical list,

of goods or services that they reasonably require for the purposes of functions which they are exercising under Part I of the principal Act [F12other than under section 16CD of that Act].

(2)Any such arrangement is to be treated as an NHS contract for the purposes of section 4 (other than subsections (4) and (6)).

(3)In this section—

• [F13“general ophthalmic services contract” and “contractor” under such a contract have the meanings given by section 28WA of the principal Act;]

• “health service body” means a body which is a health service body for the purposes of section 4;

• “ophthalmic list” means a list published in accordance with regulations made under—

  (a)

  section [F1439(1)(a)] of the principal Act;

  (b)

  section 26(2)(a) of the M1National Health Service (Scotland) Act 1978; or

  (c)

  Article 62(2)(a) of the M2Health and Personal Social Services (Northern Ireland) Order 1972; and

• “pharmaceutical list” means a list published in accordance with regulations made under—

  (a)

  section 42(2)(a) of the principal Act;

  (b)

  section 27(2) of the National Health Service (Scotland) Act 1978; or

  (c)

  Article 63(2A)(a) of the 1972 Order.

[F15(4)In subsection (3), in paragraph (b) of the definition of “ophthalmic list” the reference to a list published in accordance with regulations made under paragraph (a) of section 26(2) of the National Health Service (Scotland) Act 1978 is a reference to the first part of the list (referred to in sub-paragraph (i) of that paragraph) which is published in accordance with regulations under that paragraph.]]]