# The Patients' Forums (Functions) Regulations 2003, Regulation 7: Referrals to Overview and Scrutiny Committees


(1) Where a Patients' Forum considers that the NHS trust or Primary Care Trust for which it is established is not carrying out its duty under section 11 of the 2001 Act, or is not doing so in a satisfactory manner, it may refer the matter to a relevant overview and scrutiny committee (within the meaning given by section 15(9) of the Act).
(2) A Patients' Forum shall not refer any matter under paragraph (1) until it has made all reasonable efforts to resolve the matter with the NHS trust or Primary Care Trust concerned and it considers that those efforts have failed.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2003/2124/regulation/7 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/patients-forums-functions-regulations-2003/regulation-7
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