Part 1: Health Service in England: Integration, Collaboration and Other Changes Secretary of State’s functions Section 40: Duties in respect of research
This section amends the NHS Act 2006 to clarify that the Secretary of State’s duty to promote research, in exercising functions in relation to the health service, includes doing so by facilitating research. The section inserts the words "facilitate or otherwise" into the duty. Section 7 of the Act similarly amends the wording of the research duty of NHS England. Section 25 creates a corresponding research duty on integrated care boards.