The National Treatment Agency (Abolition) and the Health and Social Care Act 2012 (Consequential, Transitional and Saving Provisions) Order 2013

The National Health Service Trusts (Consultation on Establishment and Dissolution) Regulations 2010 U.K.

149.—(1) The National Health Service Trusts (Consultation on Establishment and Dissolution) Regulations 2010 M1 are amended as follows.

(2) In regulation 1(2) (interpretation)—

(a) after the definition of “local authority” insert—

““relevant Local Healthwatch organisation” means a Local Healthwatch organisation for the area of a local authority in which there is situated—

(a)

in a case where the Secretary of State is considering making an establishment order, any hospital or other establishment or facility which would be managed by the NHS trust to be established, or

(b)

in any other case, any hospital or other establishment or facility managed by the NHS trust in respect of which the order is to be made;”,

(b) omit the definition of “local involvement network”, and

(c) omit the definition of “relevant local involvement network”.

(3) In regulation 2 (consultation relating to orders under section 25 of the Act and dissolution orders)—

(a) in paragraph (1), for “each relevant local involvement network” substitute “ each relevant Local Healthwatch organisation ”,

(b) in paragraph (5)(a), for “each relevant local involvement network” substitute “ each relevant Local Healthwatch organisation ”,

(c) in paragraph (5)(b), for “each relevant local involvement network” substitute “ each relevant Local Healthwatch organisation ”, and

(d) in paragraph (6), for “local involvement network” substitute “ Local Healthwatch organisation ”.

(4) In regulation 3 (consultation relating to transfer orders)—

(a) in paragraph (1)(a), for “each relevant local involvement network” substitute “ each relevant Local Healthwatch organisation ”,

(b) in paragraph (1)(b), for “each relevant local involvement network” substitute “ each relevant Local Healthwatch organisation ”, and

(c) in paragraph (2), for “local involvement network” substitute “ Local Healthwatch organisation ”.

(5) In regulation 4(3) (combined and joint consultations), for “each relevant local involvement network”, in each place where it occurs, substitute “ each relevant Local Healthwatch organisation ”.

Marginal Citations

M1 S.I. 2010/743, to which there is an amendment not relevant to this Order.