The Care Quality Commission (Reviews and Performance Assessments) Regulations 2018

Review

3.—(1) Before the end of each review period, the Secretary of State must—

(a) carry out a review of these Regulations;

(b) set out the conclusions of the review in a report; and

(c) publish the report before Parliament.

(2) The report must in particular—

(a) set out the objectives intended to be achieved by the system of reviews and performance assessments established by section 46(1) of the Health and Social Care Act 2008;

(b) assess the extent to which these Regulations enable those objectives to be achieved; and

(c) assess whether those objectives could be better achieved by changing what these Regulations prescribe for the purposes of such a system.

(3) In this regulation, “review period” means—

(a) the period of eighteen months beginning with the day on which these Regulations come into force, and

(b) subject to paragraph (4), each successive period of five years.

(4) If a report under this regulation is laid before Parliament before the last day of the review period to which it relates, the following review period is to begin with the day on which that report is laid.