Regulation 2 Interpretation

In these Regulations—

• “the NHS Act 2006” means the National Health Service Act 2006;

• “ICB” means integrated care board^f1;

• “initial area” has the meaning given by section 14Z26 of the NHS Act 2006 (process for establishing initial integrated care boards);

• “initial ICB” means the first ICB to be established for an initial area;

• “relevant trust” means an NHS trust or NHS foundation trust.

For the purposes of these Regulations, an ICB’s “patient group” is the group of people for whom the ICB has responsibility for the purposes of section 3 or 3A (or both) of the NHS Act 2006^f2.