Part 2: Health and Adult Social Care Information Section 98: Collection of information from private health care providers
This section amends section 259(1) of the 2012 Act which sets out the Information Centre’s powers to require and request the provision of information. The effect of the amendment is to additionally enable the Information Centre to require private providers of health services to provide to the Information Centre any information it requires in order to comply with a direction from the Secretary of State under section 254 of the 2012 Act to establish an information system. This does not include information which the Information Centre requires in order to comply with requests under section 255 of the 2012 Act.
	Paragraphs (c) to (g) of this section make consequential amendments to section 259.
	Paragraph (h) of this section signposts to new section 277E of the 2012 Act for the enforcement of requirements against persons other than public bodies and defines "health care providers".