Patient advice and support service

I119Duties to share information

1

A relevant body must (where reasonably practicable and otherwise appropriate) give providers of the patient advice and support service information about—

a

the relevant body (and the health service generally) including its organisation, procedures and specific services that it provides,

b

any changes to the information mentioned in paragraph (a), and

c

such other relevant matters as providers of the patient advice and support service may reasonably request.

2

The Agency must secure that providers of the patient advice and support service give relevant bodies information about—

a

the services that providers of the patient advice and support service provide,

b

such other relevant matters as relevant bodies may reasonably request.

3

No information is to be given under subsection (1) or (2) which would infringe patient confidentiality.

4

For the purposes of this section “relevant body” has the same meaning as in section 10ZA(6) of the 1978 Act (provision of patient advice and support service).