Section 98 Ensuring sufficient skilled health care workers for the health serviceI1

(1)

F1NHS England must exercise its functions F2under this Chapter with a view to ensuring that a sufficient number of persons with the skills and training to work as health care workers for the purposes of the health service is available to do so throughout England.

(2)

Regulations may provide that the duty under subsection (1) may only be performed, or may not be performed, in relation to persons of a specified description.

Annotations

Textual amendments

F1: Words in s. 98(1) substituted (1.4.2023) by The Health Education England (Transfer of Functions, Abolition and Transitional Provisions) Regulations 2023 (S.I. 2023/368), reg. 1(2), Sch. 1 para. 13(6)(a) (with reg. 7)
F2: Words in s. 98(1) inserted (1.4.2023) by The Health Education England (Transfer of Functions, Abolition and Transitional Provisions) Regulations 2023 (S.I. 2023/368), reg. 1(2), Sch. 1 para. 13(6)(b) (with reg. 7)

Commencement

I1: S. 98 in force at 1.4.2015 by S.I. 2014/3186, art. 2(b)

Notes on Chapter 1

Textual amendments

F1: Pt. 3 Ch. 1 heading substituted (1.4.2023) by The Health Education England (Transfer of Functions, Abolition and Transitional Provisions) Regulations 2023 (S.I. 2023/368), reg. 1(2), Sch. 1 para. 13(3) (with reg. 7)