<P> The Health and Social Care Act 2012 ( c 7 ) is an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom . It provides for the most extensive reorganisation of the structure of the National Health Service in England to date . It removed responsibility for the health of citizens from the Secretary of State for Health , which the post had carried since the inception of the NHS in 1948 . It abolished NHS primary care trusts ( PCTs ) and Strategic Health Authorities ( SHAs ) and transferred between £ 60 billion and £ 80 billion of `` commissioning '' , or health care funds , from the abolished PCTs to several hundred `` clinical commissioning groups '' , partly run by the general practitioners ( GPs ) in England but a major point of access for private service providers . A new executive agency of the Department of Health , Public Health England , was established under the Act on 1 April 2013 . </P>
<P> The Health and Social Care Act 2012 ( c 7 ) is an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom . It provides for the most extensive reorganisation of the structure of the National Health Service in England to date . It removed responsibility for the health of citizens from the Secretary of State for Health , which the post had carried since the inception of the NHS in 1948 . It abolished NHS primary care trusts ( PCTs ) and Strategic Health Authorities ( SHAs ) and transferred between £ 60 billion and £ 80 billion of `` commissioning '' , or health care funds , from the abolished PCTs to several hundred `` clinical commissioning groups '' , partly run by the general practitioners ( GPs ) in England but a major point of access for private service providers . A new executive agency of the Department of Health , Public Health England , was established under the Act on 1 April 2013 . </P>
who published the health and social care act 2012
who published the health and social care act 2012
Parliament of the United Kingdom
Parliament of the United Kingdom