Key legislation (health and health services)
Key primary legislation
- Public Health Act 1875
- Public Health Act 1925
- Public Health Act 1936
- Abortion Act 1967
- Health Services and Public Health Act 1968
- Medicines Act 1968
- Chronically Sick and Disabled Persons Act 1970
- Misuse of Drugs Act 1971
- Poisons Act 1972
- Mental Health Act 1983
- Medical Act 1983
- Public Health (Control of Disease) Act 1984
- Hospital Complaints Procedure Act 1985
- Health and Medicines Act 1988
- Opticians Act 1989
- National Health Service and Community Care Act 1990
- Access to Health Records Act 1990
- Osteopaths Act 1993
- Chiropractors Act 1994
- National Health Service (Primary Care) Act 1997
- Health Act 1999
- Care Standards Act 2000
- National Health Service Reform and Health Service Professionals Act 2002
- Health (Wales) Act 2003
- Health and Social Care (Community Health and Standards) Act 2003
- Licensing Act 2003
- Mental Capacity Act 2005
- Public Services Ombudsman (Wales) Act 2005
- Health Act 2006
- National Health Service Act 2006
- National Health Service (Consequential Provisions) Act 2006
- National Health Service (Wales) Act 2006
- Mental Health Act 2007
- Local Government and Public Involvement in Health Act 2007
- Health and Social Care Act 2008
- NHS Redress (Wales) Measure 2008
- Human Fertilisation and Embryology Act 2008
- Health Act 2009
- Mental Health (Wales) Measure 2010
- Carers Strategies (Wales) Measure 2010
- Sunbeds (Regulation) Act 2010
- Human Transplantation (Wales) Act 2013
- National Health Service Finance (Wales) Act 2014
- Health and Social Care (Quality and Engagement) (Wales) Act 2020
- Health and Social Care (Wales) Act 2025