Regulation 4 Review of decisions to record and monitor telephone calls in high security hospitalsI1

The Care Quality Commission shall review a decision made in accordance with F1direction 33(5) of the 2019 Directions (monitoring telephone calls) that a patient’s telephone calls will be monitored and recorded if an application to review that decision is made by the patient within six months beginning with the day on which that person receives the information set out in F2direction 33(6)(b) of those Directions.

On an application under paragraph (1) the Care Quality Commission may direct that the recording and monitoring of the patient’s telephone calls F3pursuant to F4direction 33(5) and (6) of the 2019 Directions shall cease.