UK Health and Social Care Act 2008 (Regulated Activities) Regulations 2014 (CQC Fundamental Standards)
Part 3 Section 2: fundamental standards of care (regulations 8 to 15) – UK Health and Social Care Act 2008 (Regulated Activities) Regulations 2014 (CQC Fundamental Standards)

UK Health and Social Care Act 2008 (Regulated Activities) Regulations 2014 (CQC Fundamental Standards) 12: Provide safe care and treatment: assess and mitigate risks, ensure competent staff, safe premises and equipment in sufficient quantity, proper medicines management, infection prevention and control, and timely care planning when care is shared or transferred

What does 12 require?

Care and treatment must be provided in a safe way. The registered person must assess the risks to the health and safety of service users of receiving the care or treatment and do all that is reasonably practicable to mitigate them; ensure that persons providing care have the qualifications, competence, skills and experience to do so safely; ensure that premises are safe for their intended purpose and used safely and that equipment is safe and used safely; where the provider supplies equipment or medicines, ensure sufficient quantities to ensure safety and meet needs; ensure the proper and safe management of medicines; assess the risk of, and prevent, detect and control the spread of, infections including those that are health care associated (having regard to the Code of Practice under section 21 of the Act); and where responsibility for care is shared with or transferred to others, work with them, the service user and other appropriate persons to ensure timely care planning for the service user's health, safety and welfare.

Maintained by Gerard Blokdyk

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