Health and Social Care Act 2012

288 Monitor: duty to co-operate with Care Quality Commission

(1) Monitor must co-operate with the Care Quality Commission in the exercise of their respective functions.

(2) In particular Monitor must—

(a) give the Commission any information Monitor has about the provision of health care services which Monitor or the Commission considers would assist the Commission in the exercise of its functions,

(b) make arrangements with the Commission to ensure that—

(i) a person applying both for a licence under Chapter 3 of Part 3 and to be registered under the Health and Social Care Act 2008 may do so by way of a single application form,

(ii) such a person is granted a licence under that Chapter and registration under that Act by way of a single document, and

(c) seek to secure that the conditions included in a licence under that Chapter in a case within paragraph (b) are consistent with any conditions on the person’s registration under that Act.

(3) Without prejudice to subsection (2)(a) Monitor must, on request, provide the Commission with any material relevant to the exercise of Monitor’s functions pursuant to section 73(2), so far as the material relates to the provision of health care services.

(4) In subsection (2), references to registration under the Health and Social Care Act 2008 are references to registration under Chapter 2 of Part 1 of that Act.