The National Health Service Commissioning Board and Clinical Commissioning Groups (Responsibilities and Standing Rules) Regulations 2012 No. 2996

PART 8 E+W Standing rules: choice of health service provider

Interpretation E+W

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 M1 ;

“prison” includes any other institution to which prison rules made under section 47 of the Prison Act 1952 M2 apply.

Marginal Citations

M1 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.

M2 1952 c.47.