After section 27B of the National Health Service Act 2006 (inserted by section 55 of this Act) insert—
Recommendations about restructuring (27C) (1) NHS England may— (a) make recommendations to NHS trusts for or in connection with the making of restructuring applications; (b) take such other steps as it considers appropriate to facilitate restructuring applications involving NHS trusts. (2) In this section “restructuring application”, in relation to an NHS trust, means an application by the NHS trust under— (a) section 56 (mergers involving NHS foundation trusts); (b) section 56A (acquisitions by NHS foundation trusts); (c) section 69A (transfer of property etc between NHS bodies); (d) paragraph 28 of Schedule 4 (dissolution of NHS trusts).