National Health Service Act 2006 : Chapter 41.

  • Great Britain.
Date:
[2006], ©2006
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Credit: National Health Service Act 2006 : Chapter 41. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Schedule 14 — Further provision about the expenditure of Primary Care Trusts pharmaceutical services must be treated for the purposes of this Schedule as remuneration referable to the cost of drugs. (3) The Secretary of State may treat all remuneration paid by Primary Care Trusts to such persons, so far as it is met by an NHS trust or an NHS foundation trust under section 234(4), as remuneration referable to the cost of drugs for those purposes. SCHEDULE 15 Section 232 ACCOUNTS AND AUDIT NHS bodies 1 (1) The following are NHS bodies for the purposes of this Schedule— (a) any Strategic Health Authority, (b) any Special Health Authority to which sub-paragraph (2) applies, (c) any Primary Care Trust, (d) any NHS trust all or most of whose hospitals, establishments and facilities are situated in England, (e) any trustees for such an NHS trust appointed under paragraph 10 of Schedule 4, (f) any special trustees appointed as mentioned in section 212(1) for a trust all or most of whose hospitals, establishments and facilities are situated in England, (g) any trustees for a Primary Care Trust appointed under paragraph 12 of Schedule 3. 2) This sub-paragraph applies to any Special Health Authority which — paragrapn app Yip ty (a) performs functions only or mainly in respect of England, or (b) neither performs functions only or mainly in respect of England, nor performs functions only or mainly in respect of Wales. Accounts to be kept by NHS bodies 2 (1) Each NHS body must keep proper accounts and proper records in relation to the accounts. (2) If the Secretary of State so directs with the approval of the Treasury, the accounts of any such body of a description specified in the direction must be kept in such form as is so specified. (3) This paragraph is subject to paragraph 8(2). Preparation of annual accounts 3 (1) Each NHS body must prepare in respect of each financial year annual accounts in such form as the Secretary of State may direct with the approval of the Treasury. (2) This paragraph is subject to paragraph 8(3).