Health and Social Care Act 2012

289 Care Quality Commission: duty to co-operate with Monitor

(1) Section 70 of the Health and Social Care Act 2008 (co-operation between the Commission and the Independent Regulator of NHS foundation trusts) is amended as follows.

(2) For subsection (1) substitute—

“(1) The Commission must co-operate with Monitor in the exercise of their respective functions.”

(3) For subsection (2) substitute—

“(2) In particular the Commission must—

(a) give Monitor any information the Commission has about the provision of health care which the Commission or Monitor considers would assist Monitor in the exercise of its functions,

(b) make arrangements with Monitor to ensure that—

(i) a person applying to be both registered under Chapter 2 and for a licence under the Health and Social Care Act 2012 may do so by way of a single application form, and

(ii) such a person is granted a registration under Chapter 2 and a licence under that Act by way of a single document, and

(c) seek to secure that the conditions on a registration under Chapter 2 in a case within paragraph (b) are consistent with the conditions included in the person’s licence under that Act.”

(4) In subsection (3)—

(a) for “Independent Regulator” substitute “Monitor”, and

(b) for “an NHS foundation trust” substitute “a person who holds a licence under the Health and Social Care Act 2012”.

(5) After that subsection insert—

“(4) In this section, a reference to a licence under the Health and Social Care Act 2012 is a reference to a licence under Chapter 3 of Part 3 of that Act.”

(6) In the heading of that section, for “Independent Regulator of NHS Foundation Trusts” substitute “Monitor”.