Section 4 Register of patients
Subject to paragraph (4), the person registered shall maint ain or cause to be maintained a register of all patients past and present.
The register referred to in paragraph (1) shall, in respect of each patient, include from date of admission to date of discharge, the following particulars:—
the name, address, date of birth, marital status and religious denomination of the patient;
the name, address and telephone number, if any, of the patient’s next of kin and of any person authorised by the patient to act on his behalf;
the name, address and telephone number of the patient’s general medical practitioner;
the date on which the patient is admitted to the nursing home;
the date on which the patient is discharged from the nursing home;
if the patient is discharged to hospital, the date of and reasons for that discharge and the name of the hospital concerned;
if the patient dies in the nursing home, the date, time and cause of death and the name of the medical practitioner who certifies the cause of death.
In the case of a nursing home which is a maternity home, the register maintained under paragraphs (1) and (2) shall also include, in respect of each maternity patient, the following particulars:—
the date and time at which the patient was delivered in the nursing home of a child or children, the number of children to whom the patient gave birth at that confinement, their sex, whether born alive or still-born, and whether born prematurely;
the name and qualifications of the person who delivered the child or children detailed at paragraph (3)(a);
the date and time of any miscarriage occurring in the nursing home;
the date on which any child born in the nursing home to the patient left that home and the name of that child; and in the event that the child left otherwise than to the custody or care of a parent, guardian or relative, then the name and address of the person having such custody or care;
if any child born in the nursing home to the patient died in that home, the name of that child and the date and time of death.
The register shall be maintained in pursuance of this regulation with respect to each patient, and be retained at the nursing home by the person currently registered for a minimum period of 3 years from the date of the last entry in that register in respect of that patient.