Part 14 E+W Patient and public involvement in health and social care

Local involvement networks E+W

224 Duties of services-providers to respond to local involvement networks E+W

(1) The Secretary of State may by regulations impose, on a services-provider, duties—

(a) as respects responding to requests for information made to the services-provider by a local involvement network;

(b) as respects dealing with reports or recommendations made to the services-provider by a local involvement network; or

(c) as respects dealing with reports or recommendations which, in accordance with any requirement imposed in regulations under paragraph (b), have been referred to the services-provider by another services-provider.

(2) In subsection (1) “services-provider” means—

(a) a National Health Service trust;

(b) an NHS foundation trust;

(c) a Primary Care Trust;

(d) a local authority; or

(e) a person prescribed by regulations made by the Secretary of State.

(3) For the purposes of subsection (1), something is done by a local involvement network if—

(a) it is done by a person who, in pursuance of arrangements made under section 221(1), is to carry on activities specified in section 221(2); and

(b) it is done by that person in the carrying-on, under those arrangements, of activities so specified.

(4) Before making regulations under this section, the Secretary of State must consult such persons as the Secretary of State considers appropriate.

Commencement Information

I1 S. 224 in force at 21.2.2008 by S.I. 2008/461, art. 2(1)(b)