Regulation 24 Regulated activity relating to vulnerable adults

Subject to regulation 26, the conveying of adults who need to be conveyed by reason of age, illness or disability by the following persons in the course of their employment is regulated activity relating to vulnerable adults under paragraph 7(1)(f) of Schedule 4 to the 2006 Act^f1—

(a)

any person who is employed as a hospital porter;

(b)

any person who is employed as an emergency care assistant;

(c)

any person who is employed as an ambulance technician;

(d)

any driver who is employed in the Patient Transport Service^f2 or a person who is employed to assist that driver in carrying out the conveying.

Annotations

Footnotes

f1: Paragraph 7(1)(f) of Schedule 4 to the 2006 Act was substituted by section 66(3) of the Protection of Freedoms Act 2012.
f2: Non-emergency patient transport services, known as the Patient Transport Service, are typified by the non-urgent, planned, transportation of patients with a medical need for transport to and from premises providing NHS healthcare and between NHS healthcare providers.