Regulation 23 Regulated activity relating to vulnerable adults

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 2 to the 2007 Order^f1—

(a)

any person who is employed as a hospital porter or a person undertaking the transfer of patients or clients;

(b)

any person who is employed within an emergency department undertaking or assisting with the transfer of patients or clients;

(c)

any person who is employed by the Northern Ireland Ambulance Service Health and Social Care Trust undertaking or assisting with the transfer of patients or clients;

(d)

any driver employed in the Patient Transport Service^f2 undertaking or assisting with the transport of patients or clients.

Annotations

Footnotes

f1: Paragraph 7(1)(f) of Schedule 2 to the 2007 Order was substituted by section 78 of, and paragraph 3(2) of Schedule 7 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 a premises providing NHS healthcare and between NHS healthcare providers.