{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-health-service-complaints-regulations-2004/regulation-20",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2004/1768",
  "legislation_title": "The National Health Service (Complaints) Regulations 2004",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-health-service-complaints-regulations-2004",
  "path": "regulation/20",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "20",
  "heading": "Publicity",
  "text": "(1) Each NHS body and the Healthcare Commission must ensure that there is effective publicity for its complaints arrangements.\n(2) Each NHS body must take all reasonable steps to ensure that the persons listed in paragraph (3) are informed of its arrangements, the name of its complaints manager and the address at which he can be contacted.\n(3) The persons referred to in paragraph (2) are—\n(a) patients and their carers;\n(b) visitors to any hospital or other premises for the management of which the NHS body is responsible;\n(c) staff of the NHS body;\n(d) independent providers with whom arrangements have been made under section 16CC or section 23 of the 1977 Act;\n(e) any body with which it has made an NHS contract; and\n(f) its relevant patients' forum.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "words substituted",
      "affecting": "uksi/2008/528",
      "affecting_title": "The Local Involvement Networks Regulations 2008"
    },
    {
      "type": "substituted for reg. 20(3)(f)",
      "affecting": "uksi/2008/528",
      "affecting_title": "The Local Involvement Networks Regulations 2008"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2004/1768/regulation/20",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T05:22:56.607863+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."
}