Section 13J: Duty to obtain appropriate advice

National Health Service Act 2006 · 2006 c. 41View on legislation.gov.uk

Part 2: Health service bodies — CHAPTER A1: NHS England

NHS England must obtain advice appropriate for enabling it effectively to discharge its functions from persons who (taken together) have a broad range of professional expertise in—

the prevention, diagnosis or treatment of illness, and
the protection or improvement of public health.

Subsection (1) does not apply in relation to NHS England's education and training functions (see section 102 of the Care Act 2014 for the obtaining of advice in relation to those functions).

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