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Health and Social Care Act 2012

Section 8 – Secretary of State’s duty as to reporting on and reviewing treatment of providers

92.This section inserts a new section 1G into the NHS Act to impose a duty on the Secretary of State to report on and review the treatment of providers of NHS services.

93.Subsection (1) requires the Secretary of State to lay a report before Parliament on any matter, including taxation, which might affect either the ability of NHS health care providers to provide health care services for the purposes of the NHS or the reward available to them for doing so. This report has to be laid before Parliament within 12 months of Royal Assent to this Act.

94.Subsection (2) provides that the report must include recommendations as to how any identified differences in the treatment of NHS health care providers could be addressed.

95.Subsection (3) requires the Secretary of State to keep under review the treatment of NHS health care providers as respects any matter mentioned in subsection (1).

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