Guidance

NHS trust development authority directions 2016

These directions consolidate previous ones and give new functions to the NHS Trust Development Authority (NHS TDA) from 1 April 2016.

• From: Department of Health and Social Care
• Published: 1 April 2016

This publication was withdrawn on 5 July 2022

These directions were replaced on 1 July 2022 by The NHS England (Healthcare Safety Investigation Branch) directions 2022.

Documents

[Withdrawn] NHS TDA directions and revocations and the revocation of the Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust directions 2016

PDF, 253 KB, 10 pages

[Withdrawn] The NHS TDA (healthcare safety investigation branch) directions 2016

PDF, 206 KB, 7 pages

Details

The new directions make specific provisions that include:

• NHS TDA exercising additional functions of the Secretary of State around improvement of health services that, before 1 April 2016, were carried out by NHS England
• NHS TDA and Monitor working together under a single leadership and operating model to ensure improvement in quality of care, patient safety and financial sustainability across the health service
• giving NHS TDA a new general objective that requires it, when exercising functions, to ensure that NHS trusts are able to comply with the duty under section 26 of the National Health Act 2006
• NHS TDA’s regard to new models of care and arrangements in respect of the provision of health services

The directions in the second document require the NHS TDA to establish the Healthcare Safety Investigation Branch.

Published 1 April 2016