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(1) These Regulations may be cited as the Care Quality Commission (Additional Functions) (Amendment) Regulations 2023.
(2) These Regulations come into force on 28th November 2023.
(3) These Regulations extend to England and Wales.
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(1) The Care Quality Commission (Additional Functions) Regulations 2011 are amended as follows.
(2) After regulation 4 insert—“
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(1) The Commission has the function of providing training, guidance and support to the following in connection with the matters referred to in paragraph (2)—
(a) bodies which exercise functions in connection with relevant activities (“relevant bodies”); and
(b) individuals employed or appointed, or formerly employed or appointed, by relevant bodies.
(2) The matters mentioned in paragraph (1) are the raising or making, by those individuals, of concerns, or suggestions for improvements, including the handling of such concerns or suggestions, in relation to the exercise of functions in connection with relevant activities by relevant bodies by which those individuals are, or were formerly, employed or appointed.
(3) In this regulation—
 “bodies” means bodies of persons corporate or unincorporated;
 “employed” is to be construed in accordance with regulation 2(1) of the Health and Social Care Act 2008 (Regulated Activities) Regulations 2014;
 “relevant activities” means the provision of NHS care or the carrying on of regulated activities involving or connected with the provision of health care.”.

Signed by authority of the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care
Maria Caulfield
Parliamentary Under Secretary of State
Department of Health and Social Care
30th October 2023