Health and Social Care Act 2008

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

Health and Social Care Act 2008[1]

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
Dates
Royal assent	21 July 2008
History of passage through Parliament
Text of statute as originally enacted
Revised text of statute as amended

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).

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

The Act makes further substantial revisions and repeals to the Public Health (Control of Disease) Act 1984, by section 129, and Schedule 11. These have the effect of repealing, and replacing most of the provisions of Part 2 of the 1984 Act.