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The Health and Social Care Act 2008 (Regulated Activities) Regulations 2014
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Safe care and treatment
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12.—(1) Care and treatment must be provided in a safe way for service users.
(2) Without limiting paragraph (1), the things which a registered person must do to comply with that paragraph include—
(a)assessing the risks to the health and safety of service users of receiving the care or treatment;
(b)doing all that is reasonably practicable to mitigate any such risks;
(c)ensuring that persons providing care or treatment to service users have the qualifications, competence, skills and experience to do so safely;
(d)ensuring that the premises used by the service provider are safe to use for their intended purpose and are used in a safe way;
(e)ensuring that the equipment used by the service provider for providing care or treatment to a service user is safe for such use and is used in a safe way;
(f)where equipment or medicines are supplied by the service provider, ensuring that there are sufficient quantities of these to ensure the safety of service users and to meet their needs;
(g)the proper and safe management of medicines;
(h)assessing the risk of, and preventing, detecting and controlling the spread of, infections, including those that are health care associated;
(i)where responsibility for the care and treatment of service users is shared with, or transferred to, other persons, working with such other persons, service users and other appropriate persons to ensure that timely care planning takes place to ensure the health, safety and welfare of the service users.
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