# The National Health Service (Quality Accounts) Regulations 2010, Regulation 8: Document assurance by NHS England or the relevant integrated care board

Extent: E+W

(1) Where paragraph (3) applies, the provider must provide a copy of the draft relevant document to NHS England within 30 days beginning with 1st April following the end of the reporting period.
(2) Where paragraph (3) does not apply, the provider must provide a copy of the draft relevant document to the relevant integrated care board within 30 days beginning with 1st April following the end of the reporting period.
(2A) But if the draft relevant document is for the reporting period ending with 31st March 2020 the provider may provide a copy of it as required by paragraph (1) or (2) later than 30 days beginning with 1st April following the end of the reporting period.
(3) This paragraph applies where 50% or more of the relevant health services that the provider directly provides or sub-contracts during the reporting period are provided under contracts, agreements or arrangements with NHS England (calculated by reference to the full cost to the provider of providing, either directly or through sub-contractors, the services).
(4) For the purpose of this regulation, “relevant integrated care board” means—
(a) where all the relevant health services that the provider directly provides or sub-contracts under contracts, agreements or arrangements with an integrated care board are provided under contracts, agreements or arrangements with one integrated care board, that integrated care board;
(b) where all the relevant health services that the provider directly provides or sub-contracts under contracts, agreements or arrangements with an integrated care board are provided under contracts, agreements or arrangements with more than one integrated care board, the integrated care board which has responsibility for the largest number of persons to whom the provider has provided relevant health services during the reporting period.
(5) For the purposes of paragraph (4)(b), an integrated care board has responsibility for a person receiving health services provided by a provider if, in relation to those services, it is responsible for that person under or by virtue of section 3 (duties of integrated care boards as to commissioning certain health services) or 3A (power of integrated care boards to commission certain health services) of the 2006 Act.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2010/279/regulation/8 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/national-health-service-quality-accounts-regulations-2010/regulation-8
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