Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether the Local Authority Services and National Health Service Complaints (England) Regulations 2009 allow for two separate complaints, made by a patient, on the delivery of NHS care and treatment to be investigated concurrently by the relevant professional bodies of qualified healthcare staff; and if will make a statement.

The Local Authority Social Services and National Health Service Complaints (England) Regulations 2009 do allow for two separate complaints made by a patient to be investigated concurrently. There is nothing in the regulations that would prevent this from taking place.