Part 2Standards
Chapter 2NHS health care: introductory
45Quality in health care
(1)
It is the duty of each F1Welsh NHS body to put and keep in place arrangements for the purpose of monitoring and improving the quality of health care provided by and for that body.
(2)
In this Part “health care” means—
(a)
services provided to individuals for or in connection with the prevention, diagnosis or treatment of illness; and
(b)
the promotion and protection of public health.
(3)
In subsection (2)(a), “illness” has the meaning given by F2section 275 of the 2006 Act.
F3(4)
In this Chapter references to the provision of health care for a body include in the case of an English NHS body references to the provision of health care in respect of which direct payments are made by that body under section 12A(1), or under regulations under section 12A(4), of the National Health Service Act 2006.