Part 1: Health Service in England: Integration, Collaboration and Other Changes NHS England Section 12: Support and Assistance by NHS England
This section inserts a new section 13YA into the NHS Act 2006. Subsection (1)(a) gives NHS England the power to provide assistance or support to any person providing or proposing to provide services as part of the health service. Subsection (1)(b) gives NHS England the power to give assistance or support to any person exercising functions in relation to the health service. (similar to the Secretary of State’s power in section 254A of the NHS Act 2006).
	Subsection (2) clarifies that any assistance provided under subsection (1)(a) or (b) includes making available the services, employees and other resources of NHS England.
	Subsection (3) clarifies that any assistance provided under subsection (1)(a) or under subsection (1)(b) to an integrated care board, includes making financial assistance. The insertion of this provision extends the support functions provided by NHS England, placing in statute a provision allowing NHS England to provide direct financial support to providers within the scope of the provisions and integrated care boards.
	Subsection (4) gives NHS England the ability to set the terms on which assistance or support under this section is provided based on what it considers appropriate.