{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-health-service-act-2006/section-13R",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-health-service-act-2006/section-13R.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/2006/41",
  "legislation_title": "National Health Service Act 2006",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-health-service-act-2006",
  "path": "section/13R",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "13R",
  "heading": "Information on safety of services provided by the health service",
  "text": "(1) NHS England must establish and operate systems for collecting and analysing information relating to the safety of the services provided by the health service.\n(2) NHS England must make information collected by virtue of subsection (1), and any other information obtained by analysing it, available to such persons as NHS England considers appropriate.\n(3) NHS England may impose charges, calculated on such basis as it considers appropriate, in respect of information made available by it under subsection (2).\n(4) NHS England must give advice and guidance, to such persons as it considers appropriate, for the purpose of maintaining and improving the safety of the services provided by the health service.\n(5) NHS England must monitor the effectiveness of the advice and guidance given by it under subsection (4).\n(6) An integrated care board must have regard to any advice or guidance given to it under subsection (4).\n(7) NHS England may arrange for any other person (including another NHS body) to exercise any of NHS England’s functions under this section.\n(8) Arrangements made under subsection (7) do not affect the liability of NHS England for the exercise of any of its functions.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Pt. 2 Ch. A1 inserted (27.3.2012 for specified purposes, 1.10.2012 for specified purposes, 1.2.2013 for specified purposes, 1.4.2013 in so far as not already in force) by Health and Social Care Act 2012 (c. 7), ss. 23(1), 306(1)(d)(4); S.I. 2012/1831, art. 2(2) (with art. 4); S.I. 2012/2657, art. 2(4); S.I. 2013/160, art. 2(2) (with arts. 7-9)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in Act substituted (1.7.2022) by Health and Care Act 2022 (c. 31), s. 186(6), Sch. 1 para. 1(1)(2); S.I. 2022/734, reg. 2(a), Sch. (with regs. 13, 29, 30)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in s. 13R(6) substituted (1.7.2022) by Health and Care Act 2022 (c. 31), s. 186(6), Sch. 4 para. 98; S.I. 2022/734, reg. 2(a), Sch. (with regs. 13, 29, 30)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2006/41/section/13R",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:13:55.183741+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."
}