National Health Service Act 2006

[F1 14Z16 Performance assessment of clinical commissioning groups E+W

(1) The Board must conduct a performance assessment of each clinical commissioning group in respect of each financial year.

(2) A performance assessment is an assessment of how well the clinical commissioning group has discharged its functions during that year.

(3) The assessment must, in particular, include an assessment of how well the group has discharged its duties under—

(a) sections 14R, 14T, 14W and 14Z2,

(b) sections 223H to 223J, and

(c) section 116B(1) of the Local Government and Public Involvement in Health Act 2007 (duty to have regard to assessments and strategies).

(4) In conducting a performance assessment, the Board must consult each relevant Health and Wellbeing Board as to its views on the clinical commissioning group's contribution to the delivery of any joint health and wellbeing strategy to which the group was required to have regard under section 116B(1)(b) of that Act of 2007.

(5) The Board must, in particular, have regard to—

(a) any document published by the Secretary of State for the purposes of this section, and

(b) any guidance published under section 14Z8.

(6) The Board must publish a report in respect of each financial year containing a summary of the results of each performance assessment conducted by the Board in respect of that year.]

Textual Amendments

F1 Ss. 14P-14Z24 inserted (27.3.2012 for specified purposes, 1.10.2012 for specified purposes, 1.2.2013 for specified purposes, 1.4.2013 in so far as not already in force) by Health and Social Care Act 2012 (c. 7), ss. 26, 306(1)(d)(4); S.I. 2012/1831, art. 2(2) (with art. 6); S.I. 2012/2657, art. 2(4); S.I. 2013/160, art. 2(2) (with arts. 7-9)