The NHS Payment Scheme
The Act replaces the National Tariff with a new NHS payment scheme which gives the NHS more flexibility in how prices and rules are set, to help support the delivery of more integrated care at local levels.
	The scheme will be published by NHS England, who will consult with integrated care boards as the new commissioners of most NHS services, as well as relevant providers (both NHS providers and those from the independent or voluntary sector). The NHS payment scheme will set rules around how commissioners establish prices to pay providers for healthcare services for the purposes of the NHS, or public health services commissioned by an integrated care board or NHS England, on behalf of the Secretary of State (known as section 7A and section 7B services, in reference to the relevant powers in the NHS Act 2006, as inserted by this Act).