Part 1Promotion and provision of the health service in England
F15F1Direct payments for health care
Ss. 12A-12D and cross-heading inserted (19.1.2010) by Health Act 2009 (c. 21), ss. 11, 40(1); S.I. 2010/30, art. 2(b)
12ADirect payments for health care
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Subsection (1) applies to—
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anything that the Secretary of State or a local authority has a duty or power to provide or arrange under section 2A or 2B or Schedule 1;
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Subsection (1) is subject to any provision made by regulations under section 12B.
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If regulations so provide, F13an integrated care board may, for the purpose of securing the provision for a patient of services that F14the board must provide under section 117 of the Mental Health Act 1983 (after-care), make payments, with the patient's consent, to the patient or to a person nominated by the patient F7; and the references in this subsection to F13an integrated care board are, so far as necessary for the purposes of regulations under subsection (2E) of that section, to be read as references to F10NHS England.
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A payment under subsection (1) F8... is referred to in this Part as a “direct payment”.
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In this section and sections 12B to 12D, “local authority” has the same meaning as in section 2B.
S. 12ZB and cross-heading inserted (1.1.2024) by Health and Care Act 2022 (c. 31), ss. 79, 186(6); S.I. 2023/1431, reg. 3(b)