Part 1: Health Service in England: Integration, Collaboration and Other Changes NHS Trusts Section 56: Recommendations about restructuring of NHS trusts
This section inserts a new section 27C in the NHS Act 2006 which gives NHS England the power to make recommendations to NHS Trusts and to take steps it considers appropriate, in relation to applications made by NHS trusts relating to mergers under section 56 of the NHS Act 2006; acquisitions under section 56A of the NHS Act 2006; transfer of property etc. between NHS bodies under section 69A of the NHS Act 2006 and the dissolution of an NHS trust under paragraph 28 of Schedule 4 to the NHS Act 2006. The TDA was previously directed to exercise these functions under the 2016 Directions.