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Regulation 5 Obtaining information

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(1)

Subject to regulation 6 (restrictions on disclosure of information to a Patients' Forum), a Patients' Forum may require those mentioned in paragraph (3) to produce any information which appears to the Patients' Forum to be necessary for the effective carrying out of its functions and those mentioned in paragraph (3) shall comply promptly and in any event no later than the twentieth working day following the date the requirement was made.

(2)

A requirement made under paragraph (1) shall be in writing.

(3)

Those referred to in paragraph (1) are—

(a)

a Strategic Health Authority;

(b)

an NHS trust;

(c)

a Primary Care Trust;

(d)

the Commission;

(e)

a person providing independent advocacy services (within the meaning given by section 19A of the 1977 Act); and

(f)

another Patients' Forum.