The National Health Service Commissioning Board and Clinical Commissioning Groups (Responsibilities and Standing Rules) Regulations 2012

Assessment, diagnostic, elective and minor elective care services provided by Independent Sector Treatment Centres

12.—(1) This regulation applies to services provided by an Independent Sector Treatment Centre pursuant to the arrangements specified in paragraph (2).

(2) The arrangements referred to in paragraph (1) are—

(a) the agreement made on 20th July 2005 and ending on 27th July 2013 between the Secretary of State for Health, Nations Healthcare (Nottingham) Limited, Nottinghamshire County Teaching Primary Care Trust, Nottingham City Primary Care Trust, Derby City Primary Care Trust, Derbyshire County Primary Care Trust, Lincolnshire Teaching Primary Care Trust, Leicestershire County and Rutland Primary Care Trust, Bassetlaw Primary Care Trust and Nottinghamshire University Hospitals NHS Trust for the provision of elective services and diagnostic services by Nations Healthcare (Nottingham) Limited;

(b) the agreement made on 15th December 2006 and ending on 31st March 2014 between the Secretary of State for Health, InHealth Group Limited and InHealth London Limited for the provision of diagnostic services by InHealth London Limited;

(c) the agreement made on 30th May 2008 and ending on 2nd February 2016 between the Secretary of State for Health, Care UK Clinical Services Limited and Care UK Limited for the provision of assessment and minor elective care services and diagnostic services by Care UK Clinical Services Limited;

(d) the agreement made on 30th May 2008 and ending on 27th October 2015 between the Secretary of State for Health, PHG (Hampshire) Limited and Care UK plc for the provision of elective services and diagnostic services by PHG (Hampshire) Limited;

(e) the agreement made on 31st July 2008 and ending on 31st October 2015 between the Secretary of State for Health, UKSH South West Limited and UK Specialist Hospitals Limited for the provision of elective services and diagnostic services by UKSH South West Limited; and

(f) the agreement made on 26th September 2011 and ending on 16th October 2016 between the Secretary of State for Health, Clinicenta (Hertfordshire) Limited and Carillion plc for the provision of elective services and assessment and minor elective care services by Clinicenta (Hertfordshire) Limited.

(3) The Board must arrange, to such extent as it considers necessary to meet all reasonable requirements, for the provision as part of the health service of the services to which each of the agreements specified in paragraph (2)(a) to (f) relates for the period beginning on 1st April 2013 and, in the case of each respective agreement, ending on the date on which that agreement comes to an end.

(4) In this regulation—

“assessment and minor elective care services” means services related to the assessment, screening and planned care or treatment of minor medical conditions;

“diagnostic services” includes imaging services (such as MRI, CT, Ultrasound, Xray, Dexa Scan), physiological measurement, audiology, endoscopies, including direct access diagnostic services from primary care and other ancillary services needed to support the delivery of these services; and

“elective services” means clinical care services including Final Finished Consultant Episodes relating to, for example, trauma and orthopaedic surgery, general surgery, ear nose and throat, oral surgery, urology, gynaecology, plastic surgery, ophthalmology, hepatobiliary and pancreatic surgery, colorectal surgery, vascular surgery, gastroenterology, respiratory medicine, endocrinology, rheumatology, pain management and dermatology.