{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/private-and-voluntary-health-care-wales-regulations-2002/regulation-27",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/private-and-voluntary-health-care-wales-regulations-2002/regulation-27.json",
  "legislation": "wsi/2002/325",
  "legislation_title": "Private and Voluntary Health Care (Wales) Regulations 2002",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/private-and-voluntary-health-care-wales-regulations-2002",
  "path": "regulation/27",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "27",
  "heading": "Notification of events",
  "text": "(1) The registered person shall give notice to the appropriate office of the National Assembly of—\n(a) the death of a patient—\n(i) in an establishment;\n(ii) during treatment provided in or for the purposes of an establishment; or\n(iii) as a consequence of treatment provided in or for the purposes of an establishment, within the period of seven days ending on the date of death;\nand the circumstances of the patient’s death;\n(b) any serious injury to a patient;\n(c) the outbreak in an establishment of any infectious disease, which in the opinion of any medical practitioner employed in the establishment is sufficiently serious to be so notified;\n(d) any allegation of misconduct resulting in actual or potential harm to a patient by the registered person, any person employed in or for the purposes of the establishment, or any medical practitioner with practising privileges.\n(2) Notice under paragraph (1) shall be given within the period of 24 hours beginning with the event in question and, if given orally, shall be confirmed in writing as soon as practicable.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/wsi/2002/325/regulation/27",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T00:14:45.530660+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."
}