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10In addition to carrying out its other functions, an NHS trust may, as the provider, enter into NHS contracts.
[F1(2)An NHS trust may not, as the provider, enter into an NHS contract for the provision of high security psychiatric services unless the NHS trust is approved for the purpose of this paragraph by the Secretary of State.
(3)Such approval—
(a)shall be for a period specified in the approval,
(b)may be given subject to conditions, and
(c)may be amended or revoked at any time.]
Textual Amendments
F1Sch. 2 para. 10(2)(3) inserted (1.4.2000) by 1999 c. 8, s. 41(3); S.I. 1999/2793, art. 2(3)(a), Sch. 3
11An NHS trust may undertake and commission research and make available staff and provide facilities for research by other persons.
12An NHS trust may—
(a)provide training for persons employed or likely to be employed by the trust or otherwise in the provision of services under the principal Act; and
(b)make facilities and staff available in connection with training by a university or any other body providing training in connection with the health service.
13An NHS trust may enter into arrangements for the carrying out, on such terms as seem to the trust to be appropriate, of any of its functions jointly [F2with any Primary Care Trust][F3or Local Health Board,] with any [F4Strategic Health Authority,][F5Health Authority or Special Health Authority], with another NHS trust or with any other body or individual.
Textual Amendments
F2Words in Sch. 2 para. 13 inserted (4.1.2000 for E. and otherwiseprosp.) by 1999 c. 8, ss. 65(1), 67(1), Sch. 4 paras. 74, 83(5); S.I. 1999/2342, art. 2(3)(a), Sch. 2
F3Words in Sch. 2 para. 13 inserted (10.10.2002 for W. and otherwise in force immediately before the National Health Service Act 2006 (c. 41) (which Act came into force on 1.3.2007 in accordance with s. 227(1) (subject to s. 277(2)-(5) of that Act))) by 2002 c. 17, s. 6(2), Sch. 5 para. 36(1)(3); S.I. 2002/2532, art. 2, Sch; S.I. 2006/1407, arts. 1(1), 2, Sch. 1 Pt. 2 {para. 12(c)}
F4Words in Sch. 2 para. 13 inserted (1.10.2002) by 2002 c. 17, s. 1(3), Sch. 1 Pt. 2 para. 46(a); S.I. 2002/2478, art. 3(1)(c) (with art. 3(3) and transitional provision in art. 4)
F5Words in Sch. 2 para. 13 substituted (1.4.1996 subject to s. 8 of the amending Act) by 1995 c. 17, s. 2(1)(3), Sch. 1 Pt. II para. 85(e) (with Sch. 2 paras. 6, 16)
14According to the nature of its functions, an NHS trust may make accommodation or services or both available for patients who give undertakings (or for whom undertakings are given) to pay, in respect of the accommodation or services (or both) such charges as the trust may determine.
Modifications etc. (not altering text)
C1Sch 2 para. 14 extended (1.4.2004) by Health and Social Care (Community Health and Standards) Act 2003 (c. 43), ss. 34, 199(1), Sch. 4 para. 85(a); S.I. 2004/759, art. 2
15For the purpose of making additional income available in order better to perform its functions, an NHS trust shall have the powers specified in section 7(2) of the M1Health and Medicines Act 1988 (extension of powers of Secretary of State for financing the Health Service).
Marginal Citations
[F615A An NHS Trust may arrange for the provision of accommodation and services outside England and Wales.]
Textual Amendments
F6Sch. 2 para. 15A inserted (29.11.2002) by S.I. 2002/2759, reg. 4
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