Citation, commencement and extent

1.—(1) These Regulations may be cited as the Care Quality Commission (Additional Functions) (Amendment) Regulations 2023.

(2) These Regulations come into force on 28th November 2023.

(3) These Regulations extend to England and Wales.

Amendment of the Care Quality Commission (Additional Functions) Regulations 2011

2.—(1) The Care Quality Commission (Additional Functions) Regulations 2011( 3) are amended as follows.

(2) After regulation 4 insert—

“Provision of training, guidance and support to bodies and individuals

4A.— (1)  The Commission has the function of providing training, guidance and support to the following in connection with the matters referred to in paragraph (2)—

(a) bodies which exercise functions in connection with relevant activities (“relevant bodies”); and

(b) individuals employed or appointed, or formerly employed or appointed, by relevant bodies.

(2)  The matters mentioned in paragraph (1) are the raising or making, by those individuals, of concerns, or suggestions for improvements, including the handling of such concerns or suggestions, in relation to the exercise of functions in connection with relevant activities by relevant bodies by which those individuals are, or were formerly, employed or appointed.

(3)  In this regulation—

“ bodies ” means bodies of persons corporate or unincorporated;

“ employed ” is to be construed in accordance with regulation 2(1) of the Health and Social Care Act 2008 (Regulated Activities) Regulations 2014( 4) ;

“ relevant activities ” means the provision of NHS care or the carrying on of regulated activities involving or connected with the provision of health care. ”( 5).

EXPLANATORY NOTE

(This note is not part of the Regulations)

These Regulations confer an additional function on the Care Quality Commission (“ the Commission”), namely to provide training, guidance and support to certain bodies and individuals.

The Regulations insert a new regulation 4A into the Care Quality Commission (Additional Functions) Regulations 2011.

Regulation 4A(1) confers an additional function on the Commission of providing training, guidance and support to bodies exercising functions in connection with the provision of NHS care or carrying on of regulated activities connected with the provision of health care (“ relevant activities”), and to individuals who are, or were, employed or appointed by such bodies in connection with certain matters.

Regulation 4A(2) sets out that those matters are the raising of concerns, or the making of suggestions for improvements, by individuals, in relation to relevant activities carried on by bodies by which they are, or were, employed or appointed.

Regulation 4A(3) defines terms used in regulation 4A.

A full impact assessment has not been produced for this instrument as no, or no significant, impact on the private, voluntary or community bodies is foreseen.