Section 14Z54: Consultation about forward plans, National Health Service Act 2006

This section applies where an integrated care board and its partner NHS trusts and NHS foundation trusts are—

preparing a plan under section 14Z52, or

revising a plan under section 14Z53 in a way that they consider to be significant.

The integrated care board and its partner NHS trusts and NHS foundation trusts must consult—

the group of people for whom the integrated care board has core responsibility, and

any other persons they consider it appropriate to consult.

The integrated care board and its partner NHS trusts and NHS foundation trusts must involve each relevant Health and Wellbeing Board in preparing or revising the plan.

The integrated care board and its partner NHS trusts and NHS foundation trusts must, in particular—

give each relevant Health and Wellbeing Board a draft of the plan or (as the case may be) the plan as revised, and

consult each relevant Health and Wellbeing Board on whether the draft takes proper account of each joint local health and wellbeing strategy published by it which relates to the period (or any part of the period) to which the plan relates.

Where a Health and Wellbeing Board is consulted under subsection (4)(b)—

it must respond with its opinion on the matter mentioned there;

it may also give that opinion to NHS England.

Where a Health and Wellbeing Board gives its opinion to NHS England under subsection (5)(b) it must inform the integrated care board and its partner NHS trusts and NHS foundation trusts that it has done so (unless it informed them, in advance, that it was planning to do so).

If an integrated care board and its partner NHS trusts and NHS foundation trusts revise or further revise a draft after it has been given to each relevant Health and Wellbeing Board under subsection (4), subsections (4) and (5) apply in relation to the revised draft as they applied in relation to the original draft.

An integrated care board and its partner NHS trusts and NHS foundation trusts must include in a plan published under section 14Z52(3)—

a summary of the views expressed by anyone consulted under subsection (2),

an explanation of how they took account of those views, and

a statement of the final opinion of each relevant Health and Wellbeing Board consulted in relation to the plan under subsection (4).

In this section, "joint local health and wellbeing strategy" means a strategy under section 116A of the Local Government and Public Involvement in Health Act 2007.

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