The National Health Service (Quality Accounts) Amendment Regulations 2011

• Citation: S.I. 2011/269
• Sections: 2

Section 1 Citation and commencement

These Regulations may be cited as the National Health Service (Quality Accounts) Amendment Regulations 2011 and shall come into force on 1st April 2011.

Section 2 Amendments of the National Health Service (Quality Accounts) Regulations 2010

(1) The National Health Service (Quality Accounts) Regulations 2010 are amended as set out in the following paragraphs.

(2) In regulation 2 (exemption for community health services and primary care services)—

(a) in the heading, for “community health services” substitute “ NHS Continuing Healthcare”;

(b) in paragraph (1), for “community health services” substitute “NHS Continuing Healthcare”; and

(c) in paragraph (2), for the definition of “community health services” substitute—

“NHS Continuing Healthcare” means a package of care arranged and funded solely by the health service for a person aged 18 or over to meet physical or mental health needs which have arisen as a result of illness;

“health service” and “illness” have the meanings given in section 275 of the 2006 Act.

(3) In regulation 5(1) (written statements by other bodies) in sub-paragraphs (b) and (c), for “500” substitute “1000”.

(4) In regulation 7 (priorities for improvement) for paragraph (2) substitute—

(2) The description must include—

(a) at least three priorities for improvement indicating the relationship, if any, between the identification of these priorities and the reviews of data relating to quality of care referred to in item 1.1 of the Schedule;

(b) progress made since the last relevant document (if one has been published before);

(c) how progress to achieve the priorities identified in paragraph (a) will be monitored and measured by the provider; and

(d) how progress to achieve the priorities identified in paragraph (a) will be reported by the provider.

(5) In the Schedule, (information to be contained in Part 2 of the relevant document)—

(a) in column 2 (form of statement) in paragraph (a) of the text relating to item 4, for “on request from [ where further information can be obtained ] ” substitute “electronically at [ provide a web link ]”;

(b) omit items 6 and 6.1 from column 1 and the text relating to those items in column 2;

(c) for item 9 substitute—

(d) add item 11 as follows—

11 The action taken by the provider to improve data quality.