The Health and Social Care Act 2008 (Regulated Activities) Regulations 2010
| Year | 2010 |
2010 No. 781
National Health Service, England
Social Care, England
Public Health, England
The Health and Social Care Act 2008 (Regulated Activities) Regulations 2010
Made 15th March 2010
Coming into force 1st April 2010
The Secretary of State makes the following Regulations in exercise of the powers conferred by sections 8(1), 20(1) to (5), 35, 86(2) and (4), 87(1) and (2) and 161(3) and (4) of the Health and Social Care Act 20081.
In accordance with section 20(8) of the Act, the Secretary of State has consulted such persons as he considers appropriate.
A draft of these Regulations was laid before Parliament in accordance with section 162(3) of the Health and Social Care Act 2008 and approved by resolution of each House of Parliament.
PART 1
GENERAL
Citation and commencement
1. These Regulations may be cited as the Health and Social Care Act 2008 (Regulated Activities) Regulations 2010 and come into force on 1st April 2010.
Interpretation
2. In these Regulations—
“the Act” means the Health and Social Care Act 2008;
“the 1983 Act” means the Mental Health Act 19832;
“the 2006 Act” means the National Health Service Act 20063;
“the 2001 Order” means the Health Professions Order 20014;
“adult placement carer” means an individual who, under the terms of a carer agreement, provides, or intends to provide, personal care for service users together with, where necessary, accommodation in the individual’s home;
“adult placement scheme” means a scheme carried on (whether or not for profit) by a local authority or other person for the purposes of—
(a) recruiting and training adult placement carers;
(b) making arrangements for the placing of service users with adult placement carers; and
(c) supporting and monitoring placements;
“carer agreement” means an agreement entered into between a person carrying on an adult placement scheme and an individual for the provision, by that individual, of personal care to a service user together with, where necessary, accommodation in the individual’s home;
“chiropodist or podiatrist” means a person registered as such with the Health Professions Council pursuant to article 5 of the 2001 Order5;
“employment” means—
(a) employment under a contract of service, an apprenticeship, a contract for services or otherwise than under a contract (including under a carer agreement); and
(b) the grant of practising privileges,
and “employed” and “employer” should be construed accordingly;
“employment agency” and “employment business” have the same meanings as in the Employment Agencies Act 19736;
“health care professional” means, except in paragraph 5 of Schedule 1, a person who is registered as a member of any profession to which section 60(2) of the Health Act 19997applies;
“hospital”, except in paragraphs 1(3)(d) and 6 of Schedule 1, has the same meaning as in section 275 of the 2006 Act;
“institution within the further education sector” has the same meaning as in section 91 of the Further and Higher Education Act 19928;
“local anaesthesia” means any anaesthesia other than general, spinal or epidural anaesthesia, and also excludes the administration of a regional nerve block;
“medical practitioner” means a registered medical practitioner9;
“nominated individual” must be construed in accordance with regulation 5(2);
“nurse” means a registered nurse;
“nursing care” means any services provided by a nurse and involving—
(a) the provision of care; or
(b) the planning, supervision or delegation of the provision of care,
other than any services which, having regard to their nature and the circumstances in which they are provided, do not need to be provided by a nurse;
“personal care” means—
(a) physical assistance given to a person in connection with—
(i) eating or drinking (including the administration of parenteral nutrition),
(ii) toileting (including in relation to the process of menstruation),
(iii) washing or bathing,
(iv) dressing,
(v) oral care, or
(vi) the care of skin, hair and nails (with the exception of nail care provided by a chiropodist or podiatrist); or
(b) the prompting, together with supervision, of a person, in relation to the performance of any of the activities listed in paragraph (a), where that person is unable to make a decision for themselves in relation to performing such an activity without such prompting and supervision;
“practising privileges” means the grant, by a person managing a hospital, to a medical practitioner of permission to practise as a medical practitioner in that hospital;
“premises” means—
(a) any building or other structure, including any machinery or engineering systems which are physically affixed and integral to such building or structure; or
(b) a vehicle;
“registered manager” means, in respect of a regulated activity, a person registered with the Commission under Chapter 2 of Part 1 of the Act as a manager in respect of that activity, and “manage” should be construed accordingly;
“registered person” means, in respect of a regulated activity, a person who is the service provider or registered manager in respect of that activity;
“school” has the same meaning as in the Education Act 199610;
“service provider” means, in respect of a regulated activity, a person registered with the Commission under Chapter 2 of Part 1 of the Act as a service provider in respect of that activity;
“service user” means a person who receives services provided in the carrying on of a regulated activity;
“treatment”, except in paragraph 6 of Schedule 1, includes—
(a) a diagnostic or screening procedure carried out for medical purposes;
(b) the ongoing assessment of a service user’s mental or physical state;
(c) nursing, personal and palliative care; and
(d) the giving of vaccinations and immunisations;
“vulnerable adult” has the same meaning as in section 59 of the Safeguarding Vulnerable Groups Act 200611.
PART 2
REGULATED ACTIVITIES
Prescribed activities
3.—(1) Subject to paragraphs (3) to (8), for the purposes of section 8(1) of the Act, the activities specified in Schedule 1 are prescribed as regulated activities.
(2) An activity which is ancillary to, or is carried on wholly or mainly in relation to, a regulated activity shall be treated as part of that activity.
(3) Subject to paragraph (4), until 1st October 2010, an activity is only a regulated activity if it is carried on by an English NHS body12.
(4) Where services involving, or connected with, the provision of social care are provided by an English NHS body which is registered as an establishment or agency under Part 2 of the Care Standards Act 200013in relation to the provision of those services then, to the extent that those services are capable of being a regulated activity for the purposes of these Regulations, they are only a regulated activity with effect from 1st October 2010.
(5) An activity is only a regulated activity if it is carried on in England.
(6) In Schedule 1, in paragraph 10(1), the words “by an English NHS provider” shall cease to have effect on 1st April 2011.
(7) Subject to paragraph (8), the activities specified in Schedule 2 are not regulated activities.
(8) In Schedule 2—
(a)
(a) paragraphs 3, 6 and 7 and, in paragraph 4, the words “and except where paragraph 3 applies”, shall cease to have effect on 1st April 2012; and
(b)
(b) paragraphs 9 and 11 shall cease to have effect on 1st April 2011.
PART 3
REQUIREMENTS RELATING TO PERSONS CARRYING ON OR MANAGING A REGULATED ACTIVITY
Requirements where the service provider is an individual or partnership
4.—(1) This regulation applies where a service provider (P) is an individual or a partnership.
(2) P must not carry on a regulated activity unless P is fit to do so.
(3) P is not fit to carry on a regulated activity unless P is—
(a)
(a) an individual who carries on the regulated activity, otherwise than in partnership with others, and satisfies the requirements set out in paragraph (4); or
(b)
(b) a partnership and each of the partners satisfies the requirements set out in paragraph (4);
(4) The requirements referred to are that P or, where applicable, each of the partners is—
(a)
(a) of good character;
(b)
(b) physically and mentally fit to carry on the regulated activity and has the necessary qualifications, skills and experience to do so; and
(c)
(c) able to supply to the Commission, or arrange for the availability of, information relating to themselves specified in Schedule 3.
Requirement where the service provider is a body other than a partnership
5.—(1) This regulation applies where the service provider is a body other than a partnership.
(2) The body must give notice to the Commission of the name, address and position in the body of an individual (in these Regulations referred to as “the nominated individual”) who is employed as a director, manager or secretary of the body and who is responsible for supervising the management of the carrying on of the regulated activity by the body.
(3) The registered person must take all reasonable steps to ensure that the nominated individual is—
(a)
(a) of good character;
(b)
(b) physically and mentally fit to supervise the management of the carrying on of the regulated activity and has the necessary qualifications, skills and experience to do so; and
(c)
(c) able to supply to the registered person, or arrange for the availability of, the information specified in Schedule 3.
Requirements relating to registered managers
6.—(1) A person (M) shall not manage the carrying on of a regulated activity as a registered manager unless M is fit to do so.
(2) M is not fit to be a registered manager in respect of a...
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