division_name: Health and Social Care Bill &#8212; <i>Report (3rd Day)</i> &#8212; <i>Relevant documents: 18th and 22nd Reports from the Constitution Committee</i>
motion: <p class="italic" pid="a.1076.0/1" pwmotiontext="unrecognized">Amendment 38C</p>
  
  <p class="italic" pid="a.1076.0/2" pwmotiontext="unrecognized"> Moved by Lord Warner</p>
  
  <p pid="a.1076.0/3" pwmotiontext="unrecognized"><b>38C:</b> After Clause 19, insert the following new Clause-</p>
  
  <p pid="a.1076.0/4" pwmotiontext="quot">"Integration of services</p>
  
  <p pid="a.1076.0/5" pwmotiontext="lines">(1) In discharging any duties under this Act, or any related regulations or guidance, "integration" means the integration of health and social care commissioning, assessment, service provision or payment arrangements with the primary purpose of improving the delivery of integrated care and treatment to individual patients or service users or groups of such individuals.</p>
  
  <p pid="a.1076.0/6" pwmotiontext="lines">(2) Annual reports produced in accordance with this Act by the National Commissioning Board; and a clinical commissioning group shall report progress made by that body on improving the delivery of integrated care and treatment in accordance with this definition.</p>
  
  <p pid="a.1076.0/7" pwmotiontext="lines">(3) The National Commissioning Board's annual business plan must explain how it proposes to improve integration of services in accordance with this definition.</p>
  
  <p pid="a.1076.0/8" pwmotiontext="lines">(4) In developing tariffs, both the National Commissioning Board and Monitor shall have regard to improving integrated care and treatment in accordance with this definition."</p>