SCHEDULE 1 Further Provision about the Commissioner for Patient Safety

SCHEDULE 1 Further Provision about the Commissioner for Patient Safety

Section 1

Principles relating to core duties

1

(1)     The Commissioner must prepare and publish a set of principles to govern the way in which the Commissioner will carry out the Commissioner's core duties.

(2)     The Commissioner—

(a)     may revise the principles, and

(b)     must publish any revised version.

(3)     The Commissioner must carry out a public consultation in preparing or revising the principles.

Involvement of patients

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(1)     The Commissioner must take reasonable steps to involve patients in the discharge of the Commissioner's core duties.

(2)     The Commissioner must in particular take reasonable steps to—

(a)     ensure that patients are aware of the Commissioner's core duties and of how they may communicate with the Commissioner, and

(b)     consult patients, or persons who appear to the Commissioner to represent the interests of patients, on matters which the Commissioner proposes to consider in the discharge of the core duties.

Supplementary functions and information

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(1)

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