PART 7Regulation of health and social care workers

The Health and Care Professions Council

219Arrangements with other health or social care regulators

1

After article 44 of the Health and Social Work Professions Order 2001 (S.I. 2002/254) insert—

44AArrangements with other persons who maintain registers of health or social care workers

1

The Council may make arrangements with any relevant person for the Council to provide administrative, technical or advisory services to that person.

2

A relevant person is a person or group of persons (whether inside or outside the United Kingdom) who maintain—

a

a register of members of a profession engaged in the provision of health care,

b

a register of persons engaged in, but who are not members of a profession engaged in, the provision of health care,

c

a register of members of the social work profession, or

d

a register of persons engaged in social care work.

2

In Schedule 3 to that Order (interpretation), at the appropriate place, insert—

  • “health care” includes—

    1. a

      all forms of health care for individuals, whether relating to physical or mental health, and

    2. b

      procedures that are similar to forms of medical or surgical care but are not provided in connection with a medical condition;