PART 7

Regulation of health and social care workers

The Health and Care Professions Council

Arrangements with other health or social care regulators
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1
After article 44 of the Health and Social Work Professions Order 2001 (S.I. 2002/254) insert—

Arrangements with other persons who maintain registers of health or social care workers
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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—
a
all forms of health care for individuals, whether relating to physical or mental health, and
b
procedures that are similar to forms of medical or surgical care but are not provided in connection with a medical condition;
.