{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/care-act-2014/section-98",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/care-act-2014/section-98.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/2014/23",
  "legislation_title": "Care Act 2014",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/care-act-2014",
  "path": "section/98",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "98",
  "heading": "Ensuring sufficient skilled health care workers for the health service",
  "text": "(1) NHS England must exercise its functions under 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.\n(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.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "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)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "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)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 98 in force at 1.4.2015 by S.I. 2014/3186, art. 2(b)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2014/23/section/98",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:07:33.400424+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}