Part 1: Health Service in England: Integration, Collaboration and Other Changes Integrated Care Boards: Functions Schedule 3: Conferral of primary care functions on integrated care boards etc.
This Schedule confers functions on integrated care boards in relation to primary care services and contains related amendments. It makes amendments to the NHS Act 2006 and consequential amendments to related legislation for the conferral of medical, dental and ophthalmic primary care functions on integrated care boards. Currently, the functions associated with arranging these services sit with NHS England. The intention is that integrated care boards will hold the majority of these functions at an agreed point in the future. NHS England will retain a limited role in oversight and discharging functions that can be most effectively exercised at a national level.