(1)The Secretary of State must publish before the start of each financial year a document which specifies the objectives and priorities that the Secretary of State has set for HEE for that year in relation to the education and training to be provided for health care workers.
(2)The Secretary of State must also publish at intervals of not more than three years a document (called the “Education Outcomes Framework”) which specifies the outcomes that the Secretary of State has set for HEE to achieve having regard to those objectives and priorities.
(3)The Secretary of State—
(a)may revise a document published under subsection (1) or (2), and
(b)if the Secretary of State does so, must publish it as revised.
(4)HEE must publish a document which—
(a)specifies the objectives and priorities that it has set, for the period specified in the document, for the planning and delivery of education and training to health care workers,
(b)specifies the outcomes that HEE expects to achieve in that respect during that period having regard to those objectives and priorities, and
(c)includes, or refers to a document which includes, guidance for LETBs (see section 103) on the exercise of the function under section 107(1).
(5)In performing the duty under subsection (4), HEE must have regard, in particular, to its objectives in the longer term in relation to the planning and delivery of education and training to health care workers.
(6)HEE must ensure that the objectives, priorities and outcomes specified for the purposes of subsection (4)(a) and (b) are consistent with those specified for the purposes of subsections (1) and (2).
(7)A document under subsection (4) may specify different periods in relation to different categories of health care worker.
(8)HEE must, before the end of 12 months beginning with the date on which a document under subsection (4) is published—
(a)review the document, and,
(b)if HEE revises it, publish it as revised.
(9)HEE may perform the duty under subsection (4) by publishing two or more documents which, taken together, comply with that subsection.
(10)HEE must seek to achieve the objectives and outcomes and to reflect the priorities specified in any document—
(a)published by the Secretary of State under subsection (1), (2) or (3);
(b)published by HEE under subsection (4) or (8).