Explanatory Notes

Health and Social Care Act 2012

2012 CHAPTER 7

27 March 2012

Commentary on Sections

Part 8 – The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence

Functions: other

Section 242 – NICE’s charter

1389.This section allows the Secretary of State to make regulations that require NICE to publish and review a NICE charter, which would set out publicly NICE’s purposes and how it proposes to fulfil them.