Health (Miscellaneous Provisions) (No. 2) Act 2024

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Regulations respecting submission of information to chief inspector concerning specified designated centres

19. The Principal Act is amended by the insertion of the following section after section 101A:

“101B. (1) Without limiting the generality of section 98, the Minister may make regulations prescribing—

(a) subject to subsection (3), the information to be submitted under section 65A(1) by the registered provider of a specified designated centre and the frequency at which that information is to be submitted,

(b) the information referred to in paragraph (a) to be provided by the chief inspector under subsection (8) of section 65A to the persons referred to in paragraphs (a) to (d) of that subsection and, for that purpose, different information may be prescribed for different persons or classes of such persons,

(c) the frequency at which information or data derived from that information is to be provided under section 65A(8),

(d) the public bodies (within the meaning of section 65A) to which information or data derived from that information is to be provided under section 65A(8)(d), and

(e) the information referred to in paragraph (a) which may be published under paragraph (a) or (b), or both, of section 65A(10).

(2) The Minister may, under this section, make different regulations for different purposes and for different categories of specified designated centre.

(3) Regulations under subsection (1)(a) may provide for the following:

(a) information in relation to the specified designated centre, including:

(i) the number of beds and the type of accommodation in the designated centre;

(ii) information relating to services offered by the designated centre to residents;

(iii) information relating to charges imposed on residents by the designated centre;

(iv) where a registered provider is a member of a group of companies within the meaning of section 8 of the Companies Act 2014 , information relating to the group;

(v) such other information as the Minister may prescribe;

(b) information in relation to the persons employed in the specified designated centre, including:

(i) the number of persons employed and details of their employment in the designated centre;

(ii) staff turnover;

(iii) demographic information relating to the persons employed;

(iv) the qualifications of, and training undertaken by, the persons employed which relate to their role in the designated centre;

(v) such other information as the Minister may prescribe;

(c) information in relation to the residents of the specified designated centre, including:

(i) the number of residents and their duration of residence;

(ii) demographic information relating to residents;

(iii) the health status and dependency level of residents;

(iv) information relating to the admission of residents to, and the ceasing of their residence in, the designated centre, including the reasons therefor;

(v) such other information as the Minister may prescribe.

(4) In this section, ‘specified designated centre’ has the same meaning as it has in section 65A.”.