National Health Service Act 2006 (c. 41)

Part 11 E+W Property and finance

Chapter 6 E+W Finance

[F1 Joint duties of an integrated care board and its partner NHS trusts and NHS foundation trusts E+W

Textual Amendments

F1 Ss. 223L-223O and cross-headings inserted (1.7.2022) by Health and Care Act 2022 (c. 31), ss. 29(5), 186(6); S.I. 2022/734, reg. 2(a), Sch. (with regs. 13, 29, 34)

223L Joint financial objectives for integrated care boards etc E+W

(1) NHS England may set joint financial objectives for integrated care boards and their partner NHS trusts and NHS foundation trusts.

(2) An integrated care board and its partner NHS trusts and NHS foundation trusts must seek to achieve any financial objectives set under this section.

(3) Financial objectives under this section may apply to—

(a) integrated care boards and their partner NHS trusts and NHS foundation trusts generally,

(b) a particular integrated care board and its partner NHS trusts and NHS foundation trusts, or

(c) an integrated care board of a particular description and its partner NHS trusts and NHS foundation trusts.

223M Financial duties of integrated care boards etc: use of resources E+W

(1) Each integrated care board and its partner NHS trusts and NHS foundation trusts must exercise their functions with a view to ensuring that, in respect of each financial year—

(a) local capital resource use does not exceed the limit specified in a direction by NHS England;

(b) local revenue resource use does not exceed the limit specified in a direction by NHS England.

(2) In this section “local capital resource use” and “local revenue resource use” means the use of capital resources or (as the case may be) revenue resources by the integrated care board and its partner NHS trusts and NHS foundation trusts, other than use that consists of the transfer of resources between those bodies.

(3) Where an NHS trust or NHS foundation trust is the partner of more than one integrated care board, its use of capital resources or revenue resources is to be apportioned for the purposes of this section to one or more of the integrated care boards in such manner as may be provided for in a direction by NHS England.

(4) NHS England may by direction make provision for determining to which integrated care board, NHS trust or NHS foundation trust a use of capital resources or revenue resources is to be attributed for the purposes of this section.

223N Financial duties of integrated care boards etc: additional controls on resource use E+W

(1) NHS England may direct an integrated care board and its partner NHS trusts and NHS foundation trusts to exercise their functions with a view to—

(a) ensuring that local capital resource use in a financial year which is attributable to matters specified in the direction does not exceed an amount so specified;

(b) ensuring that local revenue resource use in a financial year which is attributable to matters specified in the direction does not exceed an amount so specified.

(2) A direction under subsection (1) may—

(a) specify descriptions of resources which must, or must not, be treated as local capital resources or local revenue resources for the purposes of the direction;

(b) specify uses of local capital resources or local revenue resources which must, or must not, be taken into account for the purposes of the direction.

(3) Any directions given under section 223M(3) or (4) apply for the purposes of this section as they apply for the purposes of section 223M.

(4) In this section “local capital resource use” and “local revenue resource use” have the meaning given by section 223M(2).]