The Patient Rights (Complaints Procedure and Consequential Provisions) (Scotland) Regulations 2012

Feedback and Complaints Officer and Manager

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3.—(1) Each responsible body must appoint a feedback and complaints officer to manage the arrangements.

(2) The functions of the feedback and complaints officer may be performed personally or by a person authorised by the relevant responsible body to act on the feedback and complaints officer’s behalf.

(3) Each relevant NHS body must appoint a feedback and complaints manager, to ensure compliance with the arrangements, and in particular to ensure that the feedback, comments, concerns or complaints received are monitored with a view to improving the performance of functions.

(4) The functions of the feedback and complaints manager must be performed by the person who acts as the chief executive of the relevant NHS body, or by an appropriately senior person authorised by the relevant NHS body to act on the chief executive’s behalf.