2012 No. 1186
National Health Service, England
Social Care, England
Public Health, England

The Care Quality Commission (Registration and Membership) (Amendment) Regulations 2012

Made
Laid before Parliament
Coming into force
The Secretary of State for Health, in exercise of the powers conferred by sections 20 and 161(3) of, and paragraph 3(4) of Schedule 1 to, the Health and Social Care Act 20081, makes the following Regulations:

Citation and commencement1.

(1)

These Regulations may be cited as the Care Quality Commission (Registration and Membership) (Amendment) Regulations 2012.

(2)

These Regulations come into force on 1st June 2012.

Amendments to the Care Quality Commission (Registration) Regulations 20092.

In regulations 16(4) (notification of death of service user) and 18(4) (notification of other incidents) of the Care Quality Commission (Registration) Regulations 20092, for the reference to “the National Patient Safety Agency” substitute “the NHS Commissioning Board Authority established under article 2 of the NHS Commissioning Board Authority (Establishment and Constitution) Order 2011”3.

Amendments to the Care Quality Commission (Membership) Regulations 20083.

In the Care Quality Commission (Membership) Regulations 20084—

(a)

in regulation 2 (members of the Care Quality Commission), for “not more than ten” substitute “not more than twelve”; and

(b)

omit paragraph 27 of the Schedule to those Regulations (grounds for disqualification).

Signed by authority of the Secretary of State for Health.

Simon Burns
Minister of State,
Department of Health
EXPLANATORY NOTE
(This note is not part of the Regulations)

These Regulations amend the Care Quality Commission (Registration) Regulations 2009 (“the Registration Regulations”) and the Care Quality Commission (Membership) Regulations 2008 (“the Membership Regulations”).

Regulation 2 provides for the substitution of references to the National Patient Safety Agency in regulations 16 and 18 of the Registration Regulations with references to the NHS Commissioning Board Authority.

Regulation 3 amends the Membership Regulations to increase the maximum number of members of the Care Quality Commission to no more than twelve and to remove the bar on the Secretary of State appointing Care Quality Commission employees as members.

A full impact assessment has not been produced for this instrument as no impact on the private or voluntary sectors is foreseen.