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Nursing care licence exemption
Seeks views on whether NHS continuing healthcare and NHS funded nursing care services should remain exempt from Monitor’s licence regime.
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Providers of care and support are currently not regulated by Monitor and do not require a licence to provide care and support services. Providers of NHS continuing healthcare and NHS-funded nursing care services are exempt from the requirement to hold a licence until 1 April 2015.
We are consulting on the following two options:
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to allow the current nursing care licence exemption to expire
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to continue with licence exemption for organisations that provide NHS continuing healthcare and NHS-funded nursing care
The questions are included as annex B to a wider consultation on the Care Act 2014.
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