The Mental Health (Hospital, Guardianship, Community Treatment and Consent to Treatment) (Wales) Regulations 2008

Provision of information – transfer

30.  In the event of the proposed or actual transfer of–

(a) a hospital patient under regulation 23(2) to a hospital with different hospital managers from that from which the patient was transferred, the managers of the hospital to which the patient is to be or is transferred must notify the patient and, save where a patient requests otherwise, must take such steps as are reasonably practicable to notify the person (if any) appearing to be the patient’s nearest relative, in writing, of the transfer and name and address of the hospital and the details of those hospital managers;

(b) a hospital patient into guardianship under regulation 23(4) the responsible local social services authority must, save where the patient requests otherwise, take such steps as are reasonably practicable to notify the person (if any) appearing to be the patient’s nearest relative of the date of the patient’s transfer or, where it has not done so, record its reasons for not doing so;

(c) a guardianship patient into the guardianship of another authority or person under regulation 24(2) the responsible local social services authority must, save where the patient requests otherwise, take such steps as are reasonably practicable to notify the person (if any) appearing to be the patient’s nearest relative of the date of the patient’s transfer or, where it has not done so, record its reasons for not doing so;

(d) a guardianship patient to hospital under regulation 24(4), the hospital managers of the hospital to which the patient is to be or has been transferred must notify to the patient and, save where the patient requests otherwise, take such steps as are reasonably practicable to notify the person (if any) appearing to be the patient’s nearest relative, in writing, of the name and address of the hospital and the details of the hospital managers.