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Severe harm

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Severe harm

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The Health and Social Care Act 2008 (Regulated Activities) Regulations 2014, reg 20(7)

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(7) In this regulation-- 'severe harm' means a permanent lessening of bodily, sensory, motor, physiologic or intellectual functions, including removal of the wrong limb or organ or brain damage, that is related directly to the incident and not related to the natural course of the service user's illness or underlying condition.

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