PART 2Provisions relating to the establishment of integrated care boards and the abolition of clinical commissioning groups

Amendment of the National Health Service Commissioning Board and Clinical Commissioning Groups (Responsibilities and Standing Rules) Regulations 201258.

(1)

The National Health Service Commissioning Board and Clinical Commissioning Groups (Responsibilities and Standing Rules) Regulations 201249 are amended as follows.

(2)

In regulation 2, in paragraph (1)—

(a)

omit the definition of “CCG”;

(b)

at the appropriate places insert—
““clinical commissioning group” means a body corporate which, immediately before 1st July 2022, was established in accordance with Chapter A2 of Part 2 of the 2006 Act50;”;

““integrated care board” means an integrated care board established in accordance with Chapter A3 of Part 2 of the 2006 Act;”.

(3)

In regulation 20, in paragraph (1), in the definition of “National Framework” for “1st March 2018” substitute “30th May 2022”51.

(4)

In Schedule 5, in paragraph 5—

(a)

in sub-paragraph (1), after paragraph (a) insert—

“(aa)

a clinical commissioning group;”;

(b)

in sub-paragraph (2)—

(i)

for paragraph (b) substitute—

“(b)

in the case of a clinical commissioning group, the chair or a member of the governing body of that clinical commissioning group;”;

(ii)

after paragraph (b) insert—

“(ba)

in the case of an integrated care board, a member of that integrated care board; or”.