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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-health-service-determination-of-regions-order-1994/schedule-3",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1994/683",
  "legislation_title": "The National Health Service (Determination of Regions) Order 1994",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-health-service-determination-of-regions-order-1994",
  "path": "schedule/3",
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  "number": "3",
  "heading": "NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE REGIONS",
  "text": "(1)\n(2)\n(3)\nNumber of region\nName of region\nDescription of region\n1\nNorthern and Yorkshire Region\nThe counties of Cleveland, Cumbria (except the districts of Barrow-in-Furness and South Lakeland), Durham, Humberside, Northumberland, North Yorkshire, Tyne and Wear and West Yorkshire.\n2\nTrent Region\nThe counties of Derbyshire (except, in the borough of High Peak, the area of the former borough of Glossop, and the parishes of Charlesworth, Chisworth and Tintwistle), Leicestershire, Lincolnshire, Nottinghamshire and South Yorkshire.\n3\nAnglia and Oxford Region\nThe counties of Bedfordshire, Buckinghamshire, Cambridgeshire, Norfolk, Northamptonshire, Oxfordshire and Suffolk; and the Royal county of Berkshire.\n4\nNorth Thames Region\nThe counties of Essex and Hertfordshire; the London boroughs of Barking, Barnet, Brent, Camden, Ealing, Enfield, Hackney, Hammersmith and Fulham, Haringey, Harrow, Havering, Hillingdon, Hounslow, Islington, Newham, Redbridge, Tower Hamlets and Waltham Forest; the Royal borough of Kensington and Chelsea; the Cities of London and Westminster; and the Inner Temple and the Middle Temple.\n5\nSouth Thames Region\nThe counties of East Sussex, Kent, Surrey and West Sussex; the London boroughs of Bexley, Bromley, Croydon, Greenwich, Lambeth, Lewisham, Merton, Richmond upon Thames, Southwark, Sutton and Wandsworth, and the Royal borough of Kingston upon Thames.\n6\nSouth and West Region\nThe counties of Avon, Cornwall, Devon, Dorset, Gloucestershire, Hampshire, Isle of Wight, Somerset and Wiltshire; and the Isles of Scilly.\n7\nWest Midlands Region\nThe counties of Hereford and Worcester, Shropshire, Staffordshire, Warwickshire and West Midlands.\n8\nNorth West Region\nThe counties of Cheshire, Greater Manchester, Lancashire and Merseyside; in the county of Cumbria, the districts of Barrow-in-Furness and South Lakeland; and in the county of Derbyshire, in the borough of High Peak, the area of the former borough of Glossop and the parishes of Charlesworth, Chisworth and Tintwistle.",
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  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
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