Health and Social Care Act 2008

The Health and Social Care Act 2008^[1]
Dates
Parliament of the United Kingdom
Long title	An Act to establish and make provision in connection with a Care Quality Commission; to make provision about health care (including provision about the National Health Service) and about social care; to make provision about reviews and investigations under the Mental Health Act 1983; to establish and make provision in connection with an Office of the Health Professions Adjudicator and make other provision about the regulation of the health care professions; to confer power to modify the regulation of social care workers; to amend the Public Health (Control of Disease) Act 1984; to provide for the payment of a grant to women in connection with pregnancy; to amend the functions of the Health Protection Agency; and for connected purposes.
Citation	2008 c 14
Royal assent	21 July 2008
History of passage through Parliament
Text of statute as originally enacted
Revised text of statute as amended

The Health and Social Care Act 2008 (c 14) is an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom.

The Act was created on 11 March 2009 with the following regulated activities:

provision of health care to patients by a National Health Service trust or National Health Service Foundation trust.
provision of ambulance services, for transporting patients for the purpose of treatment by a National Health Service trust or a National Health Service foundation trust.
provision of health care to patients by a Primary Care Trust.
management of NHS Blood and Transplant (This includes supply of blood, supply of stem cells and bone marrow, supply of tissues for transplant or grafting and also the Donor Organs including the matching and allocation).

According to the Act:

Patient can be a pregnant woman, a breast feeding woman, or a woman who has just given birth.
Treatment includes nursing care, palliative care, a diagnostic or an investigative procedure.

The Care Quality Commission has the responsibilities to ensure service providers are providing quality care when carrying on the regulated activities.

(information about the Act citated on www.legislation.gov.uk on the Draft Statutory Instruments 2009 No XXXX National Health Service, England Social Care, England Public Health, England. The Health and Social Care Act 2008 (Regulated Activities) regulations 2009)

Section 170 - Commencement

Orders made under section 170(3)

The Health and Social Care Act 2008 (Commencement No. 1) Order 2008 (S.I. 2008/2214 (C.100))
The Health and Social Care Act 2008 (Commencement No. 2) Order 2008 (S.I. 2008/2497 (C.106))
The Health and Social Care Act 2008 (Commencement No. 3) Order 2008 (S.I. 2008/2717 (C.120))
The Health and Social Care Act 2008 (Commencement No. 4) Order 2008 (S.I. 2008/2994 (C.129))
The Health and Social Care Act 2008 (Commencement No. 5) Order 2008 (S.I. 2008/3137 (C.136))
The Health and Social Care Act 2008 (Commencement No. 6, Transitory and Transitional Provisions) Order 2008 (S.I. 2008/3168 (C.143))
The Health and Social Care Act 2008 (Commencement No. 7) Order 2008 (S.I. 2008/3244 (C.148))
The Health and Social Care Act 2008 (Commencement No. 8) Order 2009 (S.I. 2009/270 (C.12))
The Health and Social Care Act 2008 (Commencement No. 9, Consequential Amendments and Transitory, Transitional and Saving Provisions) Order 2009 (S.I. 2009/462 (C.31))
The Health and Social Care Act 2008 (Commencement No. 9, Consequential Amendments and Transitory, Transitional and Saving Provisions) Amendment Order 2009 (S.I. 2009/580 (C.40))
The Health and Social Care Act 2008 (Commencement No. 10) Order 2009 (S.I. 2009/1310 (C.71))
The Health and Social Care Act 2008 (Commencement No. 11) Order 2009 (S.I. 2009/2567 (C.109))
The Health and Social Care Act 2008 (Commencement No. 12) Order 2009 (S.I. 2009/2862 (C.126))
The Health and Social Care Act 2008 (Commencement No. 13, Transitory and Transitional Provisions and Electronic Communications) Order 2009 (S.I. 2009/3023 (C.130))
The Health and Social Care Act 2008 (Commencement No.13, Transitory and Transitional Provisions and Electronic Communications) Amendment Order 2010 (S.I. 2010/47)
The Health and Social Care Act 2008 (Commencement No. 14) Order 2010 (S.I. 2010/23 (C.3))
The Health and Social Care Act 2008 (Commencement No. 15, Consequential Amendments and Transitional and Savings Provisions) Order 2010 (S.I. 2010/708 (C.46))
The Health and Social Care Act 2008 (Commencement No.16, Transitory and Transitional Provisions) Order 2010 (S.I. 2010/807 (C.53))
The Health and Social Care Act 2008 (Commencement No. 17) Order 2011 (S.I. 2011/986 (W.143) (C.39))
The Health and Social Care Act 2008 (Commencement No. 1) (Wales) Order 2009 (S.I. 2009/631 (W.57))
The Health and Social Care Act 2008 (Commencement No. 2 and Transitional Provisions) (Wales) Order 2010 (S.I. 2010/989 (W.98) (C.67))
The Health and Social Care Act 2008 (Commencement No. 3) (Wales) Order 2010 (S.I. 2010/1457 (W.130) (C.83))
The Health and Social Care Act 2008 (Commencement No. 4, Transitional and Savings Provisions) (Wales) Order 2010 (S.I. 2010/1547 (W.145) (C.84))

References

Halsbury's Statutes,

↑ The citation of this Act by this short title is authorised by section 173 of this Act.

External links

The Health and Social Care Act 2008, as amended from the National Archives.
The Health and Social Care Act 2008, as originally enacted from the National Archives.
Explanatory notes to the Health and Social Care Act 2008.

United Kingdom legislation

Pre-Parliamentary legislation	List of English statutes Charter of Liberties Magna Carta

Acts of Parliament by states preceding the Kingdom of Great Britain	Acts of the Parliament of England to 1483 1485–1601 1603–1641 Interregnum (1642–1660) 1660–1699 1700–1706 Acts of the Parliament of Scotland

Acts of Parliament of the Kingdom of Great Britain	1707–1719 1720–1739 1740–1759 1760–1779 1780–1800

Acts of the Parliament of Ireland	to 1700 1701–1800

Acts of Parliament of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland	1801–1819 1820–1839 1840–1859 1860–1879 1880–1899 1900–1919 1920–1939 1940–1959 1960–1979 1980–1999 2000 to date Halsbury's Statutes Legislation.gov.uk Short titles

Church of England measures	List Church of England Assembly (Powers) Act 1919

Legislation of devolved institutions	Acts of the Scottish Parliament List Acts and Measures of the National Assembly for Wales List Acts of the Northern Ireland Assembly List Acts of the Parliament of Northern Ireland List Orders in Council for Northern Ireland List

Orders-in-Council	Order in Council

Secondary legislation	United Kingdom Statutory Instruments Scottish Statutory Instruments Acts of Sederunt Acts of Adjournal

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