States of Jersey
DEPARTMENT FOR STRATEGIC POLICY, PERFORMANCE AND POPULATION
Report from the Head of Professional and Care Regulation to the Minister for Health and Community Services
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TITLE: Authority to Enter Premises – Quality Assurance Officer, Professional and Care Regulation Team
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1. Nursing and Residential Homes (Jersey) Law 1994
As part of the Minister’s statutory responsibility regulating Nursing and Residential Homes he can authorise inspectors to visit and inspect premises on his behalf. This is set out under Article 19 of the Nursing and Residential Homes (Jersey) Law 1994 which states:
“(1) ... any person authorised in that behalf by the Minister may at any time, after producing, if asked to do so, some duly authenticated document showing that he is so authorised, enter and inspect any premises which are used, or which that person has reasonable cause to believe to be used, for the purposes of a home to which this law applies,”
The Minister is recommended to authorise Patrick Westwood, recently seconded to the post of Quality Assurance Officer in the Professional and Care Regulation Team for this purpose.
2. Nursing Agencies (Jersey) Law 1978
The registration and inspection team are responsible for carrying out the inspection of Nursing Agencies on behalf of the Minister for Health and Social Services. Under Article 4 of the Law:
“(1) A registered nurse or other officer duly authorized in that behalf by the Minister may at all reasonable times, on the production of so required, of evidence of his or her authority –
(a) enter the premises specified in any licence or application for a licence under this Law or any premises which are or are to be used or which that officer has reasonable cause to believe are to are to be use for the purposes of or in connection with a nursing agency; and
(b) inspect those premises and records kept in connection with any such agency carried on at those premises.”
The Minister is recommended to authorise Patrick Westwood, recently seconded to the post of Quality Assurance Officer in the Professional and Care Regulation Team for this purpose.
Christine Blackwood
Head of Professional and Care Regulation
30 August 2018