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

Interpretation

38.  In this Part—

“elective referral” means referral by a general medical practitioner, general dental practitioner or optometrist to a health service provider for treatment that is not identified as being immediately required at the time of referral;

“Choice Directions” means the Primary Care Trusts (Choice of Secondary Care Provider) Directions 2009 which came into force on 1st April 2009(1);

“prison” includes any other institution to which prison rules made under section 47 of the Prison Act 1952(2) apply.

(1)

The Directions can be found at www.dh.gov.uk/en/Publicationsandstatistics/Publications/PublicationsLegislation/ DH_093004. These Directions were amended by further Directions that came into force on 1st April 2012 which can be found at the same link.

(2)

1952 c.47.