UK Health and Social Care Act 2008 (Regulated Activities) Regulations 2014 (CQC Fundamental Standards) 18: Deploy sufficient numbers of suitably qualified, competent, skilled and experienced staff, and give them the support, training, professional development, supervision and appraisal they need, with access to further qualifications and to evidence for their professional regulator

What does 18 require?

Sufficient numbers of suitably qualified, competent, skilled and experienced persons must be deployed in order to meet the requirements of Part 3. Persons employed in the provision of a regulated activity must receive such appropriate support, training, professional development, supervision and appraisal as is necessary to carry out the duties they are employed to perform, be enabled where appropriate to obtain further qualifications appropriate to their work, and, where they are health care professionals, social workers or other professionals registered with a health or social care regulator, be enabled to provide evidence to that regulator demonstrating, where possible, that they continue to meet the professional standards that are a condition of their ability to practise or a requirement of their role.