NHS England must conduct a performance assessment of each integrated care board in respect of each financial year.
A performance assessment is an assessment of how well the integrated care board has discharged its functions during that year.
The assessment must, in particular, include an assessment of how well the integrated care board has discharged its duties under—
In conducting a performance assessment, NHS England must consult each relevant Health and Wellbeing Board as to its views on any steps that the board has taken to implement any joint local health and wellbeing strategy to which the board was required to have regard under section 116B(1) of that Act of 2007.
In conducting a performance assessment, NHS England must, in particular, have regard to—
NHS England must publish a report in respect of each financial year containing a summary of the results of each performance assessment conducted by NHS England in respect of that year.