Explanatory note
England and Wales
(This note is not part of the Regulations)
These Regulations give the Care Quality Commission additional functions, namely a duty upon application to review a decision made pursuant to the High Security Psychiatric Services (Arrangements for Safety and Security at Ashworth, Broadmoor and Rampton Hospitals) Directions 2011 to:
withhold an item delivered or brought to a high security hospital for a patient;
withhold internal post sent by a patient in a high security hospital to another patient in the same hospital or a member of staff in that hospital; or
monitor and record a telephone conversation made by a patient in such a hospital.
Regulation 5 revokes the Care Quality Commission (Additional Functions) Regulations 2009 (S.I. 2009/410): the Regulations being revoked conferred similar additional functions in relation to decisions made pursuant to the Safety and Security in Ashworth, Broadmoor and Rampton Hospitals Directions 2000, which were themselves revoked and replaced by the High Security Psychiatric Services (Arrangements for Safety and Security at Ashworth, Broadmoor and Rampton Hospitals) Directions 2011.
A full impact assessment has not been produced for this instrument as no impact on the private or voluntary sectors is foreseen.