Regulation 2 Amendment of the Care Quality Commission (Additional Functions) Regulations 2011

The Care Quality Commission (Additional Functions) Regulations 2011^f1 are amended as follows.

After regulation 4 insert—

“Provision of training, guidance and support to bodies and individuals

4A.

(1)

The Commission has the function of providing training, guidance and support to the following in connection with the matters referred to in paragraph (2)—

(a)

bodies which exercise functions in connection with relevant activities (“relevant bodies”); and

(b)

individuals employed or appointed, or formerly employed or appointed, by relevant bodies.

(2)

The matters mentioned in paragraph (1) are the raising or making, by those individuals, of concerns, or suggestions for improvements, including the handling of such concerns or suggestions, in relation to the exercise of functions in connection with relevant activities by relevant bodies by which those individuals are, or were formerly, employed or appointed.

(3)

In this regulation—

• “bodies” means bodies of persons corporate or unincorporated;

• “employed” is to be construed in accordance with regulation 2(1) of the Health and Social Care Act 2008 (Regulated Activities) Regulations 2014^f2;

• “relevant activities” means the provision of NHS care or the carrying on of regulated activities involving or connected with the provision of health care.” ^f3.