Legislation – Health and Social Care Act 2012
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PART 9Health and adult social care services: information
CHAPTER 2NHS ENGLAND: HEALTH AND SOCIAL CARE INFORMATION ETC.
Functions: information systems
265Advice or guidance
(1)
F1NHS England—
(a)
may give advice or guidance to any person mentioned in subsection (2) on any matter relating to the collection, analysis, publication or other dissemination of information, and
(2)
Those persons are—
(a)
the Secretary of State,
F4(b)
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
(c)
any person who makes, or is proposing to make, a request under section 255,
(d)
any health or social care body, and
(e)
any person (including a devolved authority) who collects, or is proposing to collect, information which relates to the provision of health care or adult social care.
(3)
The Secretary of State must, at least once in any review period, exercise the power under subsection (1)(b) by requesting F5NHS England to give the Secretary of State advice about ways in which the burdens relating to the collection of information imposed on health or social care bodies and other persons may be minimised.
(4)
For the purposes of subsection (3) a review period is—
(a)
the period of 3 years beginning with the day on which this section comes into force, and
(b)
each subsequent period of 3 years.
(5)
A health or social care body to whom advice or guidance is given under this section must have regard to the advice or guidance in exercising functions in connection with the provision of health services or of adult social care in England.
(6)
A person, other than a public body, who provides health services, or adult social care in England, pursuant to arrangements made with a public body exercising functions in connection with the provision of such services or care must, in providing those services or that care, have regard to any advice or guidance given to the person under this section.