The National Health Service Commissioning Board and Clinical Commissioning Groups (Responsibilities and Standing Rules) (Amendment) (No. 2) Regulations 2023

These Regulations are made in discharge of the duty, in section 6E of the National Health Service Act 2006 (c. 41), as inserted by section 78(2)(b) of the Health and Care Act 2022 (c. 31), to make regulations which impose requirements or “standing rules” on NHS England and integrated care boards, to make provision as to the arrangements that NHS England and integrated care boards must make for enabling persons to whom services are to be provided to make choices with respect to specified aspects of them. They do so by amending the National Health Service Commissioning Board and Clinical Commissioning Groups (Responsibilities and Standing Rules) Regulations 2012 (S.I. 2012/2996) (“the Standing Rules”). They also include other provisions to protect and promote the rights of persons to make choices in relation to treatments or other services.