DBS

A change afoot for self-employed healthcare practitioners and enhanced DBS checks?

Safeguarding all patients, including children and vulnerable adults, is of paramount importance. Accordingly, all registered healthcare practitioners accept that they will be subject to Disclosure and Barring Service (“DBS”) checks, usually enhanced or enhanced with barred list checks, when employed or contracting with certain organisations. This not only provides the required assurances to those employing …

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New DBS changes brought in to speed up recruitment within health and social care to care for and treat persons with Covid-19

Temporary arrangements are now in place (effective from 30 March 2020) which provide employers with the option of taking on new employees within shorter timeframes than were possible to work in regulated activities with adults and/ or children. Applications are sped up for nursing and social care staff that are recruited in order to respond …

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