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(1)A local authority may not meet a person's needs for care and support (including a carer's needs for support) under sections 35 to 45 by providing or arranging for the provision of a service or facility which is required to be provided under a health enactment, unless doing so would be incidental or ancillary to doing something else to meet needs under those sections.
(2)A local authority may not secure services or facilities for a person under section 15 (preventative services) that are required to be provided under a health enactment, unless doing so would be incidental or ancillary to securing another service or facility for that person under that section.
(3)Regulations may specify—
(a)types of services or facilities which may, despite subsections (1) and (2), be provided or arranged by a local authority, or circumstances in which such services or facilities may be so provided or arranged;
(b)types of services or facilities which may not be provided or arranged by a local authority, or circumstances in which such services or facilities may not be so provided or arranged;
(c)services or facilities, or a method for determining services or facilities, the provision of which is, or is not, to be treated as incidental or ancillary for the purposes of subsection (1) or (2).
(4)A local authority may not meet a person's needs for care and support (including a carer's needs for support) under sections 35 to 45 by providing or arranging for the provision of nursing care by a registered nurse.
(5)A local authority may not secure the provision of nursing care by a registered nurse in discharging its duty under section 15.
(6)But a local authority may, despite subsections (1), (2), (4) and (5), arrange for the provision of accommodation together with nursing care by a registered nurse—
(a)if the authority has obtained consent for it to arrange for the provision of the nursing care from—
(i)whichever Local Health Board regulations require, in the case of accommodation in Wales, Scotland or Northern Ireland, or
(ii)whichever English health body regulations require, in the case of accommodation in England, or
(b)in an urgent case and where the arrangements are temporary.
(7)In a case to which subsection (6)(b) applies, the local authority must seek to obtain the consent mentioned in subsection (6)(a) as soon as is feasible after the temporary arrangements are made.
(8)Regulations may require a local authority—
(a)to make arrangements in connection with the resolution of disputes between the authority and a health body about whether or not a service or facility is required to be provided under a health enactment;
(b)to be involved in the manner specified in processes for assessing a person's needs for health care and deciding how those needs should be met.
(9)Nothing in this section affects what a local authority may do under the National Health Service (Wales) Act 2006, including entering into arrangements under regulations made under section 33 of that Act (arrangements with NHS bodies).
(10)In this section—
an “English health body” (“corff iechyd Seisnig”) means—
a clinical commissioning group;
the National Health Service Commissioning Board;
a “health body” (“corff iechyd”) means—
a Local Health Board;
a clinical commissioning group;
the National Health Service Commissioning Board;
a Health Board constituted under section 2 of the National Health Service (Scotland) Act 1978;
a Special Health Board constituted under that section;
a Health and Social Care trust;
a “health enactment” (“deddfiad iechyd”) means—
the National Health Service (Wales) Act 2006;
the National Health Service Act 2006;
the National Health Service (Scotland) Act 1978;
the Health and Personal Social Services (Northern Ireland) Order 1972 (S.I. 1972/1265 (N.I. 14));
the Health and Social Care (Reform) Act (Northern Ireland) 2009;
“nursing care” (“gofal nyrsio”) means a service which involves either the provision of care or the planning, supervision or delegation of the provision of care, but does not include a service which, by its nature and in the circumstances in which it is to be provided, does not need to be provided by a registered nurse.
Modifications etc. (not altering text)
C1Ss. 46-49 applied (1.4.2015 for specified purposes) by Care Act 2014 (c. 23), ss. 52(8), 127 (with s. 52(13)(14)); S.I. 2015/993, art. 2(p) (with transitional provisions in S.I. 2015/995); S.I. 2015/993, art. 2(p) (with transitional provisions in S.I. 2015/995); S.I. 2015/993, art. 2(p) (with transitional provisions in S.I. 2015/995)
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