Property transferred under the National Health Service Act 1946
Strategic Health Authorities and Special Health Authorities
224. Means of meeting expenditure of Strategic Health Authorities out of public funds
225. Means of meeting expenditure of Special Health Authorities out of public funds
226. Financial duties of Strategic Health Authorities and Special Health Authorities
227. Resource limits for Strategic Health Authorities and Special Health Authorities
Public involvement and scrutiny
An Act to consolidate certain enactments relating to the health service.
[8th November 2006]
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:—
(1) The Secretary of State must continue the promotion in England of a comprehensive health service designed to secure improvement—
(a) in the physical and mental health of the people of England, and
(b) in the prevention, diagnosis and treatment of illness.
(2) The Secretary of State must for that purpose provide or secure the provision of services in accordance with this Act.
(3) The services so provided must be free of charge except in so far as the making and recovery of charges is expressly provided for by or under any enactment, whenever passed.
(1) The Secretary of State may—
(a) provide such services as he considers appropriate for the purpose of discharging any duty imposed on him by this Act, and
(b) do anything else which is calculated to facilitate, or is conducive or incidental to, the discharge of such a duty.
(2) Subsection (1) does not affect—
(a) the Secretary of State’s powers apart from this section,
(b) Chapter 1 of Part 7 (pharmaceutical services).
(1) The Secretary of State must provide throughout England, to such extent as he considers necessary to meet all reasonable requirements—
(a) hospital accommodation,
(b) other accommodation for the purpose of any service provided under this Act,
(c) medical, dental, ophthalmic, nursing and ambulance services,
(d) such other services or facilities for the care of pregnant women, women who are breastfeeding and young children as he considers are appropriate as part of the health service,
(e) such other services or facilities for the prevention of illness, the care of persons suffering from illness and the after-care of persons who have suffered from illness as he considers are appropriate as part of the health service,