{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/health-and-social-care-act-2008/section-70",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/health-and-social-care-act-2008/section-70.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/2008/14",
  "legislation_title": "Health and Social Care Act 2008",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/health-and-social-care-act-2008",
  "path": "section/70",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "70",
  "heading": "Co-operation between the Commission and NHS England",
  "text": "(1) The Commission must co-operate with NHS England in the exercise of their respective functions.\n(2) In particular the Commission must—\n(a) give NHS England any information the Commission has about the provision of health care which the Commission or NHS England considers would assist NHS England in the exercise of —\n(i) its regulatory functions, within the meaning given by section 13SB(2) of the National Health Service Act 2006, or\n(ii) its functions under section 27A of the National Health Service Act 2006 (NHS trusts: oversight and support)\n(b) make arrangements with NHS England to ensure that—\n(i) a person applying to be both registered under Chapter 2 and for a licence under the Health and Social Care Act 2012 may do so by way of a single application form, and\n(ii) such a person is granted a registration under Chapter 2 and a licence under that Act by way of a single document, and\n(c) seek to secure that the conditions on a registration under Chapter 2 in a case within paragraph (b) are consistent with the conditions included in the person's licence under that Act.\n(3) Without prejudice to subsection (2)(a) the Commission must, on request, provide the NHS England with any material relevant to—\n(a) a review under section 46 ...,\n(b) a review or investigation under section 48, or\n(c) a study promoted, or undertaken, by the Commission under section 54,\nso far as the material relates to the provision of health care by a person who holds a licence under the Health and Social Care Act 2012\n(4) In this section, a reference to a licence under the Health and Social Care Act 2012 is a reference to a licence under Chapter 3 of Part 3 of that Act.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "S. 70(1) substituted (1.7.2012) by Health and Social Care Act 2012 (c. 7), ss. 289(2), 306(4); S.I. 2012/1319, art. 2(3)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in s. 70(1) substituted (1.7.2022) by Health and Care Act 2022 (c. 31), s. 186(6), Sch. 5 para. 40(3); S.I. 2022/734, reg. 2(a), Sch. (with regs. 13, 29, 30)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "S. 70(2) substituted (1.7.2012 for specified purposes, 1.4.2014 in so far as not already in force) by Health and Social Care Act 2012 (c. 7), ss. 289(3), 306(4); S.I. 2012/1319, art. 2(3); S.I. 2014/39, art. 2(3)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Words in s. 70(2)(a) substituted (1.7.2022) by Health and Care Act 2022 (c. 31), s. 186(6), Sch. 5 para. 40(4)(a)(i); S.I. 2022/734, reg. 2(a), Sch. (with regs. 13, 29, 30)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "Words in S. 70(2)(a) substituted (1.7.2022) by Health and Care Act 2022 (c. 31), s. 186(6), Sch. 5 para. 40(4)(a)(ii); S.I. 2022/734, reg. 2(a), Sch. (with regs. 13, 29, 30)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F6",
      "text": "Words in s. 70(2)(b) substituted (1.7.2022) by Health and Care Act 2022 (c. 31), s. 186(6), Sch. 5 para. 40(4)(b); S.I. 2022/734, reg. 2(a), Sch. (with regs. 13, 29, 30)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F7",
      "text": "Words in s. 70(3) substituted (1.7.2022) by Health and Care Act 2022 (c. 31), s. 186(6), Sch. 5 para. 40(5); S.I. 2022/734, reg. 2(a), Sch. (with regs. 13, 29, 30)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F8",
      "text": "Words in s. 70(3)(a) omitted (1.10.2014) by virtue of Care Act 2014 (c. 23), ss. 91(9)(c), 127(1); S.I. 2014/1714, art. 4"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F9",
      "text": "Words in s. 70(3) substituted (1.4.2013) by Health and Social Care Act 2012 (c. 7), ss. 289(4)(b), 306(4); S.I. 2013/671, art. 2(3)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F10",
      "text": "S. 70(4) inserted (1.4.2013) by Health and Social Care Act 2012 (c. 7), ss. 289(5), 306(4); S.I. 2013/671, art. 2(3)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F11",
      "text": "Words in s. 70 heading substituted (1.7.2022) by Health and Care Act 2022 (c. 31), s. 186(6), Sch. 5 para. 40(2); S.I. 2022/734, reg. 2(a), Sch. (with regs. 13, 29, 30)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 70 in force at 1.4.2009 by S.I. 2009/462, art. 2(1), Sch. 1 para. 22"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "words omitted",
      "affecting": "ukpga/2012/7",
      "affecting_title": "Health and Social Care Act 2012"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2008/14/section/70",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:12:00.738432+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."
}