PART 11Miscellaneous
Duties to co-operate
289Care Quality Commission: duty to co-operate with Monitor
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Section 70 of the Health and Social Care Act 2008 (co-operation between the Commission and the Independent Regulator of NHS foundation trusts) is amended as follows.
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For subsection (1) substitute—
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The Commission must co-operate with Monitor in the exercise of their respective functions.
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For subsection (2) substitute—
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In particular the Commission must—
a
give Monitor any information the Commission has about the provision of health care which the Commission or Monitor considers would assist Monitor in the exercise of its functions,
b
make arrangements with Monitor to ensure that—
i
a person applying to be both registered under Chapter 2 and for a licence under the Health and Social Care Act 2012 may do so by way of a single application form, and
ii
such a person is granted a registration under Chapter 2 and a licence under that Act by way of a single document, and
c
seek to secure that the conditions on a registration under Chapter 2 in a case within paragraph (b) are consistent with the conditions included in the person's licence under that Act.
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In subsection (3)—
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for “Independent Regulator” substitute “Monitor”, and
b
for “an NHS foundation trust” substitute “a person who holds a licence under the Health and Social Care Act 2012”.
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After that subsection insert—
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In this section, a reference to a licence under the Health and Social Care Act 2012 is a reference to a licence under Chapter 3 of Part 3 of that Act.
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In the heading of that section, for “Independent Regulator of NHS Foundation Trusts” substitute “Monitor”.