The National Health Service (Wales) Act 2006 (c. 42), sometimes known as the NHS (Wales) Act 2006 is an act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom relating to NHS Wales.
It consolidates legislation relating to the National Health Service as it relates to Wales.
The act devolved certain powers relating to health policy to the National Assembly for Wales.
The act establishes local health boards and NHS trusts. The act establishes mechanisms for improving the delivery of healthcare. The act places certain requirements on local health boards to consult on closures of GP surgeries. The Welsh Government can place local health boards into special measures under the act. The act requires equitable, prompt and effective health service delivery. The act requires that the healthcare be free at the point of delivery.
The 2006 act was amended by the to require that each local health board ensure that its expenditure does not exceed its funding applied over a period of rolling window of three years beginning with each rather than just applying to each financial year.
The 2006 act was amended by the National Health Service (Indemnities) (Wales) Act 2020 to establish an indemnity scheme for GPs. The indemnity scheme had first started in April 2019.
The 2006 act was amended by the to establish a new procurement regime for health services in Wales. The act allows Wales to be aligned to a new procurement model in England. Plaid Cymru criticised the legislation as "creeping privatisation".