Local Government and Public Involvement in Health Act 2007 (c. 28)

Part 14 Patient and public involvement in health and social care

Local involvement networks

224 Duties of services-providers to respond to local involvement networks

(1) The Secretary of State may by regulations impose, on a services-provider, duties—

(a) as respects responding to requests for information made to the services-provider by a local involvement network;

(b) as respects dealing with reports or recommendations made to the services-provider by a local involvement network; or

(c) as respects dealing with reports or recommendations which, in accordance with any requirement imposed in regulations under paragraph (b), have been referred to the services-provider by another services-provider.

(2) In subsection (1) “services-provider” means—

(a) a National Health Service trust;

(b) an NHS foundation trust;

(c) a Primary Care Trust;

(d) a local authority; or

(e) a person prescribed by regulations made by the Secretary of State.

(3) For the purposes of subsection (1), something is done by a local involvement network if—

(a) it is done by a person who, in pursuance of arrangements made under section 221(1), is to carry on activities specified in section 221(2); and

(b) it is done by that person in the carrying-on, under those arrangements, of activities so specified.

(4) Before making regulations under this section, the Secretary of State must consult such persons as the Secretary of State considers appropriate.