# The Independent Health Care (Wales) Regulations 2011, Regulation 49: Mental health records

Extent: E+W

The registered person must ensure that any records which are required to be made under the Mental Health (Hospital, Guardianship, Community Treatment and Consent to Treatment) (Wales) Regulations 2008, and which relate to the detention or treatment of a patient in an independent hospital, are kept for a period of not less than five years beginning on the date on which the person to whom they relate ceases to be a patient in the hospital.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/wsi/2011/734/regulation/49 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/independent-health-care-wales-regulations-2011/regulation-49
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