15 juin 2012 - The Health and Social Care Act 2012

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The Health and Social Care Act 2012 was first published on June 15 2012 and took effect on April 1 2013. The Act brought in the most wide-ranging reforms of the NHS since it was founded in 1948.
It puts clinicians at the centre of commissioning, frees up providers to innovate, empowers patients, and gives a new focus to public health. The Act covers the following five themes:
1. strengthening the commissioning of NHS services
2. increasing democratic accountability and public voice
3. liberating provision of NHS services
4. strengthening public health services
5. reforming health and care arm’s-length bodies.