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Regulating private and voluntary healthcare
— a consultation document | | Author(s) | Martin Staniforth |
| Corporate Author | NHS Executive; Department of Health - DoH |
| Publisher | Department of Health, London, June 1999 |
| Pages | 32 pp |
| Source | Department of Health, PO Box 410, Wetherby LS23 7LN. Comments to: Craig Turton, Operational Policy Unit, NHS Executive, Room 737, Wellington House, 133-155 Waterloo Road, London SE1 8UG. |
| Keywords | Private health services ; Nursing homes ; Care homes ; Registration eg homes, nursing homes ; Government publications. |
| Annotation | At present, private and voluntary healthcare is regulated under the Registered Homes Act 1984. The regulatory arrangements are out of date, unsatisfactory and not sufficiently independent; in particular, they do not provide the protection to which the public is entitled. As set out in the White Paper "Modernising social services", new and independent arrangements for the regulation of residential and nursing homes are proposed. This consultation document seeks views on future regulation of residential and nursing homes in place of the 1984 Act. It sets out proposals on: the scope of regulation; regulatory standards and sanctions; and a new regulatory structure. A draft regulatory impact assessment is also included as an annex. Comments on the consultation are invited by 17 September 1999. Proposals for future regulation will take account of the consultation process outcome, and the House of Commons Health Committee's inquiry into regulation of the non-NHS healthcare sector. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-990806004 |
| Classmark | LH: LHB: KW: Q3: 6OA |
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