Section 14Z55: Opinion of Health and Wellbeing Boards on forward plan

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

Part 2: Health service bodies — CHAPTER A3: Integrated care boards

A relevant Health and Wellbeing Board—

may give NHS England its opinion on whether a plan published by an integrated care board and its partner NHS trusts and NHS foundation trusts under section 14Z52(3) takes proper account of each joint local health and wellbeing strategy published by the Health and Wellbeing Board which relates to the period (or any part of the period) to which the plan relates, and
if it does so, must give the integrated care board and its partner NHS trusts and NHS foundation trusts a copy of its opinion.

In this section, "joint local health and wellbeing strategy" has the same meaning as in section 14Z54(9).

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