C1C3C2C5Part 1The Care Quality Commission

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Pt. 1 modified (E.W.) (6.4.2015) by Care Act 2014 (c. 23), ss. 57(1), 127(1); S.I. 2015/993, art. 4 (with transitional provisions in S.I. 2015/995)

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Pt. 1 modified (E.W.) (6.4.2015) by Care Act 2014 (c. 23), ss. 57(1)(2), 127(1); S.I. 2015/993, art. 4 (with transitional provisions in S.I. 2015/995)

C1C3C4Chapter 6Miscellaneous and General

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Pt. 1 Ch. 6 modified by 2004 c. 17, s. 10(1) (as substituted (1.10.2010) by The Health and Social Care Act 2008 (Consequential Amendments No.2) Order 2010 (S.I. 2010/813), arts. 1(1), 15)

Further provisions about functions of Commission

I1I281Publication of programme of reviews etc.

1

The Commission must from time to time prepare and publish a document setting out—

a

the special reviews and investigations that it proposes to conduct under section 48,

b

the studies that it proposes to undertake under section 54, and

c

the reviews that it proposes to conduct under section 57.

2

Before preparing a document under subsection (1) the Commission must consult—

a

the Secretary of State,

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F2NHS England, and

b

any other person or body specified by an order made by the Secretary of State,

and it must send each of those persons or bodies a copy of the document once it is prepared.

3

The Commission may determine that any document or combination of documents prepared for the purposes of any other enactment or enactments is to be treated as a document prepared for the purposes of subsection (1) (so long as the requirements of subsection (2) are complied with in relation to the document or documents concerned).

4

Nothing in a document published under subsection (1) is to be regarded—

a

as affecting any power of the Secretary of State to require a review or investigation to be conducted or a study to be undertaken, or

b

as preventing the Commission from conducting an investigation under section 48 where the Commission considers there to be a risk to the health, safety or welfare of persons receiving health or social care.