7 NHS contracts

NHS contracts

7  NHS contracts

(1)     In this Act, an NHS contract is an arrangement under which one health service body (“the commissioner”) arranges for the provision to it by another health service body (“the provider”) of goods or services which it reasonably requires for the purposes of its functions.

(2)     Section 97(6) (NHS contracts and the provision of local pharmaceutical services under pilot schemes) makes further provision about acting as commissioner for the purposes of subsection (1).

(3)     Paragraph 15 of Schedule 3 (NHS trusts and NHS contracts) makes further provision about an NHS trust acting as provider for the purposes of subsection (1).

(4)     “Health service body” means any of the following—

(a)     . . .

(b)     . . .

[(ba)     [NHS England],]

[(bb)     an integrated care board,]

(c)     an NHS trust,

(d)     a Special Health Authority,

(e)     a Local Health Board,

(f)     a Health Board constituted under section 2 of the National Health Service (Scotland) Act 1978 (c 29),

[(fa)     a Special

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