Health and Care Act 2022

Valid from 14/06/2023

5NHS England mandate: cancer outcome targetsE+W

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(1)Section 13A of the National Health Service Act 2006 (mandate) is amended in accordance with subsection (2).

(2)After subsection (2), insert the following new subsection—

(2A)The objectives specified by the Secretary of State under subsection (2)(a) for NHS England must include objectives relating to outcomes for cancer patients, and those objectives are to be treated by NHS England as having priority over any other objectives relating specifically to cancer.

Commencement Information

I1S. 5 not in force at Royal Assent, see s. 186(6)