PART 2HEALTH CARE

23Overview of Part 2

(1)Sections 24 and 25 make provision for and in connection with allowing payments to be made directly to a patient or a person nominated by the patients for the purpose of the patient securing services or goods that otherwise must or may be provided under the National Health Service (Wales) Act 2006 (c. 42) (“the 2006 Act”) or under section 117 of the Mental Health Act 1983 (c. 20).

(2)Section 26 amends section 47 of the 2014 Act so as to provide that a local authority may only provide or arrange the provision of services or facilities that are required to be provided under certain health enactments if—

(a)providing the services or facilities would be incidental or ancillary to certain care and support services that the local authority may or must provide under the 2014 Act, and

(b)they are of a nature that the local authority can be expected to provide.