# The National Patient Safety Agency (Establishment and Constitution) Order 2001, Note: Explanatory note


(This note is not part of the Order)
This Order provides for the establishment and constitution of a Special Health Authority, to be known as the National Patient Safety Agency (“the Agency”) to exercise such of the Secretary of State’s functions in connection with the implementation and oversight of measures to maintain and improve the safety of patients treated by the National Health Service and such other functions as he may direct it to perform.
Article 2 of the Order establishes the Agency, the functions of which are described in article 3 and are to be specified more particularly in directions given by the Secretary of State. Provision is also made for the constitution of the Agency (article 4), for the remuneration of members of the Agency (article 5 and for the admission of the public to meetings (article 6).

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2001/1743/note (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/national-patient-safety-agency-establishment-and-constitution-order-2001/note
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