AC-2024-LON-001142 - [2025] EWHC 2015 (Admin)

Part 4 of the 2014 Regulations (regulations 8 – 20) sets out the fundamental standards of safety and quality that a registered person must comply with (regulation 8). The claimants’ case is focused on regulation 12, which provides:

“(1)

Care and treatment must be provided in a safe way for service users.

(2)

Without limiting paragraph (1) the things which a registered person must do to comply with that paragraph include— (a) assessing the risks to the health and safety of service users of receiving the care or treatment; (b) doing all that is reasonably practicable to mitigate any such risks; (c) ensuring that persons providing care or treatment to service users have the qualifications, competence, skills and experience to do so safely; … (g) the proper and safe management of medicines; ... (i) where responsibility for the care and treatment of service users is shared with, or transferred to, other persons, working with such other persons, service users and other appropriate persons to ensure that timely care planning takes place to ensure the health, safety and welfare of the service users.”