Meeting the Regulations

This guidance describes how providers and managers can meet the regulations. These include the fundamental standards – the standards below which care must never fall. Regulation 4: Requirements where the service provider is an individual or partnership Regulation 5: Fit and proper persons: directors Regulation 6: Requirement where the service provider is a body other than a partnership Regulation 7: Requirements relating to registered managers Regulation 8: General Regulation 9: Person-centred care Regulation 9A: Visiting and accompanying in care homes, hospitals and hospices Regulation 10: Dignity and respect Regulation 11: Need for consent Regulation 12: Safe care and treatment Regulation 13: Safeguarding service users from abuse and improper treatment Regulation 14: Meeting nutritional and hydration needs Regulation 15: Premises and equipment Regulation 16: Receiving and acting on complaints Regulation 17: Good governance Regulation 18: Staffing Regulation 19: Fit and proper persons employed Regulation 20: Duty of candour Regulation 20A: Requirement as to display of performance assessments Regulation 12: Statement of purpose Regulation 13: Financial position Regulation 14: Notice of absence Regulation 15: Notice of changes Regulation 16: Notification of death of service user Regulation 17: Notification of death or unauthorised absence of a service user who is detained or liable to be detained under the Mental Health Act 1983 Regulation 18: Notification of other incidents Regulation 20: Requirements relating to termination of pregnancies Regulation 21: Death of a service provider Regulation 22A: Form of notifications to the Commission Each set of regulations listed here is set out in its original wording. The amendments to the regulations are also listed here. Health and Social Care Act 2008 (Regulated Activities) Regulations 2014 The Health and Social Care Act 2008 (Regulated Activities) (Amendment) Regulations 2015 The Health and Social Care Act 2008 (Regulated Activities) (Amendment) (Coronavirus) (No. 2) Regulations 2020 The Health and Social Care Act 2008 (Regulated Activities) (Amendment) (Coronavirus) Regulations 2021 Care Quality Commission (Registration) Regulations 2009 Care Quality Commission (Registration) and (Additional Functions) and Health and Social Care Act 2008 (Regulated Activities) (Amendment) Regulations 2012 (Amendment to Parts 4 & 5) Care Quality Commission (Registration and Membership) (Amendment) Regulations 2012

Source: Original reporting via Care Quality Commission