# The Care Quality Commission (Registration) Regulations 2009, Regulation 16: Notification of death of service user

Extent: E+W

(1) Except where paragraph (2) applies, the registered person must notify the Commission without delay of the death of a service user—
(a) whilst services were being provided in the carrying on of a regulated activity; or
(b) which has, or may have, resulted from the carrying on of a regulated activity.
(2) Subject to paragraph (4), where the service provider is a health service body, a local authority exercising public health functions (within the meaning of the National Health Service Act 2006) or a provider of primary medical services, the registered person must notify the Commission without delay of the death of a service user where the death—
(a) either—
(i) occurred whilst services were being provided in the carrying on of a regulated activity,
(ii) has, or may have, resulted from the provision of services by a health service body , or local authority exercising public health functions (within the meaning of the National Health Service Act 2006), in the course of carrying on a regulated activity, or
(iii) has, or may have, resulted from the provision of primary medical services in the course of carrying on a regulated activity and those services were provided within the period of two weeks prior to the death of the service user; and
(b) cannot, in the reasonable opinion of the registered person, be attributed to the course which that service user’s illness or medical condition would naturally have taken if that service user was receiving appropriate care and treatment.
(3) Notification of the death of a service user must include a description of the circumstances of the death.
(4) Paragraph (2) does not apply if, and to the extent that, the registered person has reported the death to NHS England.
(4A) For the purposes of paragraph (4), where a person has reported a death to the NHS Commissioning Board Authority, established under Article 2 of the NHS Commissioning Board Authority (Establishment and Constitution) Order 2011, before the establishment of NHS England, that report is to be treated as having been made to NHS England.
(5) This regulation does not apply where regulation 17 applies.
(6) In paragraph (2), “provider of primary medical services” means a person who provides primary medical services pursuant to one of the following sections of the National Health Service Act 2006—
(a) section 3A (power of integrated care boards as to commissioning certain health services),
(b) section 83(2)(b) (primary medical services),
(c) section 84 (general medical services contracts),
(d) section 92 (arrangements for the provision of primary medical services),
and provision of primary medical services shall be construed accordingly.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2009/3112/regulation/16 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/care-quality-commission-registration-regulations-2009/regulation-16
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