Part 1The Care Quality Commission

Chapter 6Miscellaneous and General

Interaction with other authorities

70Co-operation between the Commission and F1NHS England

F2(1)

The Commission must co-operate with F3NHS England in the exercise of their respective functions.

F4(2)

In particular the Commission must—

(a)

give F5NHS England any information the Commission has about the provision of health care which the Commission or F5NHS England considers would assist F5NHS England in the exercise of F6—

(i)

its regulatory functions, within the meaning given by section 13SB(2) of the National Health Service Act 2006, or

(ii)

its functions under section 27A of the National Health Service Act 2006 (NHS trusts: oversight and support)

(b)

make arrangements with F7NHS England 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.

(3)

Without prejudice to subsection (2)(a) the Commission must, on request, provide the F8NHS England with any material relevant to—

(a)

a review under section 46 F9...,

(b)

a review or investigation under section 48, or

(c)

a study promoted, or undertaken, by the Commission under section 54,

so far as the material relates to the provision of health care by F10a person who holds a licence under the Health and Social Care Act 2012

F11(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.