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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-patient-rights-treatment-time-guarantee-scotland-regulations-2012/regulation-10",
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  "legislation": "sdsi/2012/9780111016152",
  "legislation_title": "The Patient Rights (Treatment Time Guarantee) (Scotland) Regulations 2012",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-patient-rights-treatment-time-guarantee-scotland-regulations-2012",
  "path": "regulation/10",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "10",
  "heading": "Provision of information to patients",
  "text": "A Health Board must provide patients with clear and accurate information about how waiting time is calculated, and in particular a Health Board must inform patients of the consequences if they—\n(a) are indefinitely unavailable for the agreed treatment;\n(b) are unavailable for the agreed treatment for a known period;\n(c) make a decision in accordance with regulation 4(2)(d);\n(d) do not attend an agreed appointment for the agreed treatment (both where they have given reasonable notice to the Health Board, and where they have not);\n(e) refuse two or more offers of an appointment for the agreed treatment;\n(f) request to be treated in a different Health Board area in accordance with regulation 9.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/sdsi/2012/9780111016152/regulation/10",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-30T15:36:47.785908+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}