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The Mental Health (Hospital, Guardianship, Community Treatment and Consent to Treatment) (Wales) Regulations 2008

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Provision of information – assignment of responsibility for community patients

32.  In the event of the proposed or actual assignment of responsibility for a community patient, the hospital managers of the hospital to which responsibility has been assigned must—

(a)notify the patient, in writing, of the name and address of the responsible hospital and the details of the hospital managers (irrespective of whether or not there are any changes in the hospital managers); and

(b)unless the patient requests otherwise, where the assignment is made to a hospital under different management from the assigning hospital under regulation 25(2), take such steps as are reasonably practicable to notify the person (if any) appearing to be the patient’s nearest relative, the name and address of responsible hospital and the details of the hospital managers of that hospital.

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