The Personal Injuries (NHS Charges) (Amounts) (Amendment) Regulations 2021

Made: 23rd February 2021

Laid before Parliament: 24th February 2021

Coming into force: 1st April 2021

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Citation, commencement, application and interpretation

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Amendment of Schedule 1 to the principal Regulations

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Revocation

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Signed

Signed by authority of the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care.

Edward Argar — Minister of State, — Department of Health and Social Care — 2021-02-23

Explanatory note

(This note is not part of the Regulations)

EXPLANATORY NOTE

These Regulations amend the Personal Injuries (NHS Charges) (Amounts) Regulations 2015 (S.I. 2015/295) (“the principal Regulations”) which make provision about the charges payable under the scheme for the recovery of NHS charges in cases where an injured person who receives a compensation payment in respect of their injury has received NHS hospital treatment or ambulance services.

Regulation 2 amends the principal Regulations by substituting a table in Schedule 1. This table provides for increased charges in respect of injuries which occur on or after 1st April 2021. Where the injured person is provided with NHS ambulance services, the charge will be £225 (compared with £224, which is the charge in respect of injuries occurring on or after 1st April 2020, but no later than 31st March 2021). Where the injured person receives NHS treatment, but is not admitted to hospital, the charge will be £744 (compared with £743 for injuries incurred the previous year). The daily charge for NHS in-patient treatment will be £915 (compared with £913 for injuries incurred the previous year). The maximum charge in respect of an injury will be £54,682 (compared with £54,566 for injuries incurred the previous year).

Regulation 3 revokes the Personal Injuries (NHS Charges) (Amounts) (Amendment) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/138).

A full impact assessment has not been produced for this instrument as no, or no significant, impact on the private, voluntary or public sector is foreseen.

Footnotes

[^f00001]: 2003 c. 43. By virtue of section 167(1), the powers are exercisable in relation to England and Wales by the Secretary of State. See section 168 for the definition of “prescribed”. Amendments to section 195 are not relevant to the power as exercised in these Regulations.

[^f00002]: Functions conferred or imposed on the National Assembly for Wales immediately before the first appointment of a First Minister under section 46 of the Government of Wales Act 2006 (c. 32) (“GOWA”) by an enactment contained in an Act were transferred to the Welsh Ministers by section 162(1) of, and paragraph 30 of Schedule 11 to, GOWA.

[^f00003]: S.I. 2015/295; the relevant amending instrument is S.I. 2020/138.

[^f00004]: S.I. 2020/138.

Editorial notes