An Act to establish and make provision in connection with a Care Quality Commission; to make provision about health care (including provision about the National Health Service) and about social care; to make provision about reviews and investigations under the Mental Health Act 1983; to establish and make provision in connection with an Office of the Health Professions Adjudicator and make other provision about the regulation of the health care professions; to confer power to modify the regulation of social care workers; to amend the Public Health (Control of Disease) Act 1984; to provide for the payment of a grant to women in connection with pregnancy; to amend the functions of the Health Protection Agency; and for connected purposes.
The Act was created on 11 March 2009 with the following regulated activities:
provision of health care to patients by a
National Health Service (NHS) Trust or NHS Foundation Trust.
provision of ambulance services, for transporting patients for the purpose of treatment by a NHS Trust or a NHS Foundation Trust.
provision of health care to patients by a Primary Care Trust.
management of
NHS Blood and Transplant, including: supply of blood, supply of
stem cells and
bone marrow, supply of tissues for transplant or grafting and also the Donor Organs including the matching and allocation.
The
Care Quality Commission has the responsibilities to ensure service providers are providing quality care when carrying on the regulated activities.
The Act makes further substantial revisions and repeals to the
Public Health (Control of Disease) Act 1984, by section 129,[2] and Schedule 11.[3] These have the effect of repealing, and replacing most of the provisions of Part 2 of the 1984 Act.