78 Regulations as to patient choice

Patient choice and procurement

78  Regulations as to patient choice

(1)     The National Health Service Act 2006 is amended as follows.

(2)     In section 6E (standing rules)—

(a)     in subsection (1)—

(i)     for “may” substitute “must”;

(ii)     for “or” substitute “and”;

(b)     after subsection (1) insert—

“(1A)     The regulations must make provision as to the arrangements that NHS England and integrated care boards must make, in exercising their commissioning functions, for enabling persons to whom specified treatments or other specified services are to be provided to make choices with respect to specified aspects of them.

(1B)     The regulations may make other provision for the purpose of securing that, in exercising their commissioning functions, NHS England and integrated

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