PART 11Miscellaneous

Duties to co-operate

289Care Quality Commission: duty to co-operate with Monitor

1

Section 70 of the Health and Social Care Act 2008 (co-operation between the Commission and the Independent Regulator of NHS foundation trusts) is amended as follows.

2

For subsection (1) substitute—

1

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

3

For subsection (2) substitute—

2

In particular the Commission must—

a

give Monitor any information the Commission has about the provision of health care which the Commission or Monitor considers would assist Monitor in the exercise of its functions,

b

make arrangements with Monitor 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.

4

In subsection (3)—

a

for “Independent Regulator” substitute “Monitor”, and

b

for “an NHS foundation trust” substitute “a person who holds a licence under the Health and Social Care Act 2012”.

5

After that subsection insert—

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.

6

In the heading of that section, for “Independent Regulator of NHS Foundation Trusts” substitute “Monitor”.