121 Integration of care and support with health services etc: integration fund

Part 4 Health and Social Care

Integration fund

121  Integration of care and support with health services etc: integration fund

(1)     At the end of section 223B of the National Health Service Act 2006 (funding of the National Health Service Commissioning Board) insert—

“(6)     Where the mandate specifies objectives relating to service integration, the requirements that may be specified under section 13A(2)(b) include such requirements relating to the use by the Board of an amount of the sums paid to it under this section as the Secretary of State considers it necessary or expedient to impose.

(7)     The amount referred to in subsection (6)—

(a)     is to be determined in such manner as the Secretary of State considers appropriate, and

(b)     must be specified in the mandate.

(8)     The reference in subsection (6) to service integration is a reference to the integration of the provision of health services with the provision of health-related services or social care services, as referred to in sections 13N and 14Z1.”

(2)     After section 223G of that Act (meeting expenditure of clinical commissioning groups out of public funds) insert—

“223GA Expenditure on integration

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