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<br /><p>Providers of regulated health and social care services must be registered
with the Care Quality Commission and comply with certain fundamental standards, including
those relating to the employment of fit and proper persons.</p><br /><p>In the National
Health Service, employing organisations have the overarching responsibility for auditing
and monitoring compliance of third party suppliers of temporary workers (including
locum doctors) to ensure that they operate to the same level of standards in relation
to undertaking pre-appointment checks as outlined by the NHS Employment Check Standards.
Under the framework agreements, all external staffing providers (including contractors
and agencies) are required to provide assurances that they have robust recruitment
processes in place in line with the NHS Employment Check Standards.</p><br /><p>Care
workers also routinely use agencies to secure employment or apply to care homes and
care providers directly. Employers in the care sector have a duty of care to patients
and their families to take all appropriate action to ensure employees have the appropriate
credentials to enable them to work in the sector. In cases of direct payment, where
the council pays the care-recipient directly to employ a carer, this responsibility
falls to the care recipient.</p>
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