Regulation 27 Fitness of premises – learning disabilityI1

England and Wales

(1)

Subject to regulation 53—

(a)

the registered person must ensure that an independent hospital that provides, or intends to provide, overnight accommodation—

(i)

for a consecutive period of 12 months or more for patients diagnosed with a learning disability together with patients with a mental illness; or

(ii)

for a consecutive period of 12 months or more to a patient diagnosed with both a learning disability and mental illness,

must not exceed 15 approved places.

(b)

the registered person must ensure that an independent hospital that provides, or intends to provide, overnight accommodation to a patient diagnosed with learning disabilities who does not fall within sub-paragraph (1)(a), for a consecutive period of 12 months or more, must not exceed 10 approved places.

(2)

The registered person must ensure that, where reasonably practicable, the approved places referred to in paragraph (1) are provided in two or more units of the independent hospital.

Annotations

Commencement

I1: Reg. 27 in force at 5.4.2011, see reg. 1(1)