Section 223N Financial duties of integrated care boards etc: additional controls on resource useF1

(1)

NHS England may direct an integrated care board and its partner NHS trusts and NHS foundation trusts to exercise their functions with a view to—

(a)

ensuring that local capital resource use in a financial year which is attributable to matters specified in the direction does not exceed an amount so specified;

(b)

ensuring that local revenue resource use in a financial year which is attributable to matters specified in the direction does not exceed an amount so specified.

(2)

A direction under subsection (1) may—

(a)

specify descriptions of resources which must, or must not, be treated as local capital resources or local revenue resources for the purposes of the direction;

(b)

specify uses of local capital resources or local revenue resources which must, or must not, be taken into account for the purposes of the direction.

(3)

Any directions given under section 223M (3) or (4) apply for the purposes of this section as they apply for the purposes of section 223M.

(4)

In this section “local capital resource use” and “local revenue resource use” have the meaning given by section 223M (2).

Annotations

Textual amendments

F1: Ss. 223L-223O and cross-headings inserted (1.7.2022) by Health and Care Act 2022 (c. 31), ss. 29(5), 186(6); S.I. 2022/734, reg. 2(a), Sch. (with regs. 13, 29, 34)