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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-health-service-commissioning-board-and-clinical-commissioning-groups-responsibilities-and-standing-rules-amendment-regulations-2015/note",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2015/415",
  "legislation_title": "The National Health Service Commissioning Board and Clinical Commissioning Groups (Responsibilities and Standing Rules) (Amendment) Regulations 2015",
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  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Regulations)\nThese Regulations amend the National Health Service Commissioning Board and Clinical Commissioning Groups (Responsibilities and Standing Rules) Regulations 2012 (S.I. 2012/2996) (“the principal Regulations”) which (amongst other things) require the National Health Service Commissioning Board (“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, and which also set standing rules for the Board and clinical commissioning groups (CCGs) in relation to certain commissioning functions, including NHS funded nursing care.\nThe amendments in regulation 2 follow advice received, and consultation with the Board, pursuant to the statutory procedures set out in section 3B(4) of the National Health Service Act 2006.\nRegulation 2(1) inserts a new regulation 11A to make transitional and saving provision in relation to the amendment made in regulation 2(11) so that while the Board retains responsibility after 1st April 2015 for on-going contracts for wheelchair services, its statutory duty to commission the services as they are provided for in any such contract continues.\nRegulation 2 also 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. Regulation 2(4) removes the separate service prescribed at paragraph 11, which is recognised as forming part of the services prescribed at paragraph 102 of Schedule 4. Regulation 2(5) and (8) combine services previously described separately at paragraphs 31 and 76 of Schedule 4. Regulation 2(7) and (9) together redefine an existing service. Regulation 2(10) splits an existing service into two distinct prescribed services, distinguishing between paediatric and adult patients. Other paragraphs in regulation 2 either add to or remove from Schedule 4 services which must be commissioned by the Board.\nRegulation 3 amends Part 6 of the principal Regulations to specify the rates for nursing care payable by the relevant body (the Board or a CCG) where nursing care is provided in residential accommodation in Scotland or Northern Ireland arranged by a local authority.\nNo impact assessment has been prepared in respect of regulations 2 and 3 as minimal impact on the private or voluntary sectors is foreseen.",
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  "version": "current",
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  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
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