PART 2Health and adult social care: information

I1I297General duties of the Health and Social Care Information Centre etc

1

The Health and Social Care Act 2012 is amended as follows.

2

In section 253(1) (general duties of the Information Centre)—

a

omit the “and” at the end of paragraph (ca);

b

after paragraph (ca) insert—

cb

the need to promote the effective and efficient planning, development and provision of health services and of adult social care in England,

c

at the end of paragraph (d) insert

, and

e

the need to balance the needs mentioned in this subsection against one another, so far as they compete.

3

In section 261(1A) (other dissemination of information), for “the purposes of” substitute “purposes connected with”.