PART 3Regulation of health and adult social care services

CHAPTER 3Licensing

Licence conditions

I2I3103Standard condition as to transparency of certain criteria

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The standard conditions applicable to any licence under this Chapter must include a condition requiring the licence holder to—

a

set transparent eligibility and selection criteria, and

b

apply those criteria in a transparent way to persons who, having a choice of persons from whom to receive health care services for the purposes of the NHS, choose to receive them from the licence holder.

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“Eligibility and selection criteria”, in relation to a licence holder, means criteria for determining—

a

whether a person is eligible, or is to be selected, to receive health care services provided by the licence holder for the purposes of the NHS, and

b

if the person is selected, the manner in which the services are provided to the person.

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The following powers must not be exercised so as to omit the condition mentioned in subsection (1) from any licence under this Chapter—

a

F3the power conferred on NHS England by section 100 to modify the standard conditions applicable to all licences, or to licences of a particular description,

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c

the powers conferred by section 102 on the F1CMA and Secretary of State to modify those conditions or the conditions of a particular licence.