title: United Kingdom health law
text: # United Kingdom health law
  
  United Kingdom health law concerns the laws in the United Kingdom concerning health care and medicine, primarily administered through the National Health Service.
  
  ## History
  
  * Local board of health
  * UK Medical Act 1876
  * Apothecaries Act 1815
  * Dentists Act 1984
  * Medical Act 1858
  * National Health Service Act 1977
  * Royal Commission on the NHS (1979) Cmnd 7615
  * National Health Service and Community Care Act 1990, NHS internal market
  * NHS Plan 2000 more money, and more competition
  * National Health Service Act 2006
  * Regional hospital boards (1947–1974) under the National Health Service Act 1946
  * Regional health authority (UK) (1974-1996), 14 RHA's since the National Health Service Reorganisation Act 1973 plus 90 area health authorities. Also community health councils (1974-2003) with local council, charity appointees were meant to meet the public
  * NHS Executive (1996-2002) with 8 regional offices.
  * Strategic health authorities, 28 in total, and List of Primary Care Trusts in England (2001-2013). Commission for Patient and Public Involvement in Health which ran patients' forums (2003-2008) was replaced 151 local involvement networks (2008-2013)
  * Clinical commissioning group under the Health and Social Care Act 2012, originally 211 CCGs, but shrinking with mergers. The Care Quality Commission (2009-today) inspects hospitals, GPs and homes, and appoints the director of Healthwatch England which organises 148 Healthwatch groups.
  * Healthcare in Greater Manchester
  * National Health Service Act 1966 (c 8) s 10 required GP remuneration to be partly linked to the number of patients they saw.
  * National Health Service Act 1977 (c 49)
  * National Health Service (Primary Care) Act 1997 (c 46)
  * NHS Redress Act 2006
  
  ## Research
  
  * Human Fertilisation and Embryology Act 1990
  * Human Fertilisation and Embryology Act 2008
  * Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority
  * Human Genetics Commission
  * Human Reproductive Cloning Act 2001
  
  ## Mental health
  
  * Bethlem Royal Hospital
  