Health and Social Care Act 2008

• 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.

• 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.

Section 170 - Commencement

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