The National Health Service Commissioning Board and Clinical Commissioning Groups (Responsibilities and Standing Rules) (Amendment) (No. 2) Regulations 2014

EXPLANATORY NOTE

(This note is not part of the Regulations)

These Regulations are made under section 3B of the National Health Service Act 2006 (“the Act”). They make amendments to regulation 10 of, and Schedules 3 and 4 to, the National Health Service Commissioning Board and Clinical Commissioning Groups (Responsibilities and Standing Rules) Regulations 2012 (S.I. 2012/2996) (“the principal Regulations”) which require the Board to make arrangements for the provision, as part of the health service, of specified services or facilities to specified people or groups of people.

Regulation 2 amends regulation 10 of, and Schedule 3 to, the principal Regulations in so far as those provisions require the National Health Service Commissioning Board (“the Board”) to make arrangements for the provision of services to persons in secure children’s homes. The effect of these amendments is to remove the exceptions to this obligation, meaning that the Board will have responsibility for commissioning health services described in regulation 10(1) for all secure children’s homes, as defined in regulation 2 of the principal Regulations.

Regulation 3 amends Schedule 4 to the principal Regulations (services for rare and very rare conditions) to give effect to revised commissioning responsibilities for the Board pursuant to regulations 7, 10 and 11 of the principal Regulations.

These amendments follow advice received, and consultation with the Board, pursuant to the statutory procedures set out in section 3B(4) of the Act.

No impact assessment has been carried out in respect of these Regulations.