The National Health Service (Procurement, Patient Choice and Competition) (No. 2) Regulations 2013 No. 500

PART 2 Requirements as to procurement, patient choice and competition

Patient choice: choice of alternative provider

12.  Where regulation 48 of the 2012 Regulations (duty to offer an alternative provider)(1) applies, a relevant body must offer a person a choice of alternative provider in accordance with regulation 48(4) of those Regulations.

(1)

Regulation 48 of the National Health Service Commissioning Board and Clinical Commissioning Groups (Responsibilities and Standing Rules) Regulations 2012 (“the 2012 Regulations”) applies in the circumstances laid down in regulation 47 of, and is subject to regulation 49 of, the 2012 Regulations.