Part 2Health service bodies

F1Chapter 5ATrust special administrators: NHS trusts and NHS foundation trusts

Consultation and report

65HConsultation requirements

(1)

The following duties apply during the consultation period.

(2)

The trust special administrator must publish a notice stating that the administrator is seeking responses to the draft report and describing how people can give their responses.

(3)

A notice under subsection (2) must include details of how responses can be given in writing.

(4)

The trust special administrator must F2—

(a)

hold at least one meeting to seek responses from staff of the trust and from such persons as the trust special administrator may recognise as representing staff of the trust F3, and

(b)

in the case of each affected trust, hold at least one meeting to seek responses from staff of the trust and from such persons as the trust special administrator may recognise as representing staff of the trust.

(5)

The trust special administrator must hold at least one other meeting to seek responses from any person who wishes to attend, after publishing notice of the date, time and place of the meeting.

(6)

Notices under subsections (2) and (5) must be published at least once in the first 5 working days of the consultation period.

(7)

The trust special administrator must request a written response from—

F4(za)

the Board,

F5(a)

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(b)

any other person to which the trust provides goods or services under this Act F6...;

F7(bza)

any affected trust;

(bzb)

any person to which an affected trust provides goods or services under this Act that would be affected by the action recommended in the draft report;

(bzc)

any local authority in whose area the trust provides goods or services under this Act;

(bzd)

any local authority in whose area an affected trust provides goods or services under this Act;

(bze)

any Local Healthwatch organisation for the area of a local authority mentioned in paragraph (bzc) or (bzd);

F8(ba)

the Care Quality Commission;

(c)

any person within subsection (8), if required by directions given by the Secretary of State F9;

(d)

any other person specified in a direction given by the Secretary of State.

(8)

The persons within this subsection are—

F10(a)

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F10(b)

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F10(c)

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F10(d)

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F11(e)

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(f)

the member of Parliament for any constituency.

(9)

The trust special administrator must F12—

(a)

hold at least one meeting to seek responses from representatives of F13the Board and each of the persons from whom the administrator must request a written response under subsection F14(7)(b), F15(bzb), F16(ba), (c) or (d),

F17(b)

hold at least one meeting to seek responses from representatives of each of the trusts from which the administrator must request a written response under subsection (7)(bza), and

(c)

hold at least one meeting to seek responses from representatives of each of the local authorities and Local Healthwatch organisations from which the administrator must request a written response under subsection (7)(bzc), (bzd) and (bze).

(10)

The Secretary of State may direct an administrator to—

(a)

request a written response from any person;

(b)

hold a meeting to seek a response from any person.

(11)

In subsection (4) “staff of the trust” means persons employed by the trust or otherwise working for the trust (whether as or on behalf of a contractor, as a volunteer or otherwise).

F18(11A)

In this section, “affected trust” means—

(a)

where the trust in question is an NHS trust, another NHS trust, or an NHS foundation trust, which provides goods or services under this Act that would be affected by the action recommended in the draft report;

(b)

where the trust in question is an NHS foundation trust, another NHS foundation trust, or an NHS trust, which provides services under this Act that would be affected by the action recommended in the draft report.

(11B)

In this section, a reference to a local authority includes a reference to the council of a district only where the district is comprised in an area for which there is no county council.

F19(12)

For the purposes of this section in its application to the case of an NHS foundation trust—

(a)

in subsection (7)(b) F20, (bzb), (bzc) and (bzd), the words “goods or” are to be ignored, and

(b)

in subsections (7)(c) and (d) and (10), the references to the Secretary of State are to be read as references to the regulator.

(13)

In the case of an NHS foundation trust, the Secretary of State may direct the regulator as to persons from whom it should direct the administrator under subsection (10) to request or seek a response.