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24.—(1) The registered person must make suitable arrangements to protect the health, welfare and safety of service users in circumstances where responsibility for the care and treatment of service users is shared with, or transferred to, others, by means of—
(a)so far as reasonably practicable, working in cooperation with others to ensure that appropriate care planning takes place;
(b)subject to paragraph (2), the sharing of appropriate information in relation to—
(i)the admission, discharge and transfer of service users, and
(ii)the co-ordination of emergency procedures; and
(c)supporting service users, or persons acting on their behalf, to obtain appropriate health and social care support.
(2) Nothing in this regulation shall require or permit any disclosure or use of information which is prohibited by or under any enactment, or by court order.
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