These Regulations amend the National Health Service (Concerns, Complaints and Redress Arrangements) (Wales) Regulations 2011 (“the principal Regulations”).

Regulation 2(1) delays the coming into force of Part 7 of the principal Regulations from 1 October 2011 to 1 April 2012. Part 7 of the principal Regulations deals with how redress is to be provided where an NHS Trust in Wales or a Local Health Board in Wales enters into an arrangement for the provision of health services with an NHS body in England, Scotland or Northern Ireland.

Regulation 2(2) substitutes a new regulation 52(5) into the principal Regulations to reflect the new coming into force date of Part 7 and to apply the cross border redress arrangements in that Part to services that have been provided on or after 1 April 2012.

The Welsh Ministers' Code of Practice on the carrying out of Regulatory Impact Assessments was considered in relation to these Regulations. As a result, it was not considered necessary to carry out a regulatory impact assessment as to the likely costs and benefits of complying with these Regulations.