Monitor, April 2014
- The NHS Provider licence sets out conditions providers must meet to help Monitor to ensure that the health sector works for the benefit of patients.
- These conditions enable Monitor to:
- help commissioners ensure essential local services continue if providers get into serious financial difficulty;
- ensure choice and competition operate in the best interests of patients;
- set prices for NHS-funded services;
- use regulatory tools to incentivise and enable the delivery of more integrated care so services are less fragmented and easier to access for patients.
