Health (Nursing Homes) (Amendment) Act 2007
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Amendment of Health Act 1970. |
11.— The Health Act 1970 is amended by inserting the following immediately after section 61: | |
“Information to be provided to Health Service Executive by home care providers. | ||
61A.— (1) A home care provider shall give notice in writing to the Health Service Executive, as soon as it is practicable for the provider to do so, of— | ||
(a) the name and address of the provider, | ||
(b) the name and address of each person to whom the provider provides home care services, | ||
(c) the nature of such services so provided, and | ||
(d) particulars of any change to information previously given by the provider to the Executive under any paragraph (including this paragraph) of this subsection. | ||
(2) The Health Service Executive may, for statistical purposes, retain and process information given to it under subsection (1) and may publicly disclose— | ||
(a) any particulars of home care providers who are legal persons, or | ||
(b) any statistics arising from such retention and processing of such information. | ||
(3) In this section— | ||
‘home care provider’ means a natural or legal person who, whether or not pursuant to arrangements referred to in section 61(1), provides, at a charge, home care services; | ||
‘home care service’ means a service made available in a private dwelling for a person who, by reason of illness, frailty or disability, is unable to provide the service for himself or herself without assistance; | ||
‘private dwelling’, in relation to a person referred to in the definition of ‘home care service’, means a permanent dwelling that is not open to the general public to visit unless invited and where that person habitually resides.”. |