CLOSED CONSULTATIONS
Consultation on Openness (Duty of Candour)
The consultation asks for views on the best way of enforcing such a contractual duty and poses some key questions on the following areas:
- what exactly should the Duty require the NHS to do?;
- what should the penalties be for breaching the duty?;
- should organisations have to make an annual ‘‘declaration of openness’’?; and
- what support do patients and clinicians feel would help them act when they feel the NHS is not being open about an incident?
Enforcing this duty will be the responsibility of commissioners.
The consultation runs until 2 January 2012.
Responses to the consultation can be made via email to dutyofcandour@dh.gsi.gov.uk
Consultation and response details here:
http://www.dh.gov.uk/en/Consultations/Liveconsultations/DH_130400
Making Open Data Real: A Public Consultation
The Open Data consultation paper sets out Government’s proposed approach for increasing openness and transparency in public services.
The consultation seeks the public’s views on:
- how we might enhance a ‘right to data’, establishing stronger rights for individuals, businesses and other actors to obtain data from public service providers
- how to set transparency standards that enforce this right to data
- how public service providers might be held to account for delivering open data
- how we might ensure collection and publication of the most useful data
- how we might make the internal workings of government and the public sector more open
- how far there is a role for government to stimulate enterprise and market making in the use of open data.
How to respond
Deadline for responses
27 October 2011
Online
www.data.gov.uk/opendataconsultation
Email
opendataconsultation@cabinet-office.gsi.gov.uk
Post
Send a written response to:
Open Data Consultation
Transparency Team
Efficiency and Reform Group
Cabinet Office
1 Horse Guards Road
London SW1A 2HQ
Read the full consultation document here: http://www.cabinetoffice.gov.uk/resource-library/making-open-data-real-public-consultation
Consultation on Allocation Options for distribution of additional funding to local authorities for: Local HealthWatch, NHS Complaints Advocacy, PCT Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards
Launch date - 27 July 2011
Closing date - 24 October 2011
Subject to the passage of the Health and Social Care Bill, the Department (DH) will allocate funding for Local HealthWatch, NHS Complaints Advocacy and, potentially, PCT Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards from October 2012. This additional funding will be added to the current DH Learning Disabilities and Health Reform grant. This consultation is asking for your views on options for distributing the new funding for Local HealthWatch, NHS Complaints Advocacy and PCT Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards (DOLS).
This consultation closes on 24 October 2011
If you wish to respond to this consultation, please use the attached form and return by post or by email to:
Download consultation response form (DOC, 27K)
Contact:
Sarah Horne and Chris Eleftheriades
Address:
Social Care Strategic
Policy and Finance
Room 328
Wellington House
London SE1 8UG
Phone:
020 7972 4871
Email:
Not for profit delivery of deputyship services
The Office of the Public Guardian has launched a consultation aimed at care charities and other not-for-profit organisations. They are being asked whether they think they can better meet the needs of people who lack mental capacity.
The OPG is asking these organisations for their views on whether they could provide ‘deputies’ to protect the interests of people who lack mental capacity through illness or after an accident.
Deadline for responses is October 27 2011
More info on the OPG website: http://www.justice.gov.uk/news/feature-040811.htm
Full consltaiton document here: http://www.justice.gov.uk/downloads/news/call-for-evidence-panel-deputies.pdf
Direct public access to the Parliamentary and Health Ombudsman
Parliamentary and Health Service Ombudsman Ann Abraham has launched a consultation on whether the public should be able to bring complaints about government bodies to her office without first getting a referral from a Member of Parliament.
As it stands, if you would like the Ombudsman to look into a complaint about a government body that you so far haven’t been able to resolve, you must first get a referral from a MP. This is known as the ‘MP filter’. The Ombudsman feels this filter restricts access to her office's service. The Ombudsman would like to know what others think.
More information and background here: http://www.ombudsman.org.uk/improving-public-service/reports-and-consultations/consultations/direct-access-to-the-parliamentary-ombudsman
The consultation ends on 5 September 2011.
Consultation responses can be submitted via:
Via this online form
By email to: directaccess@ombudsman.org.uk
Or in hard copy to:
Direct Access Consultation
Parliamentary and Health Service Ombudsman
Millbank Tower
Millbank
London
SW1P 4QP
If you would like any of these documents mentioned on this page in a different format please contact the Ombudsman's office :
tel: 0300 061 4102
email:directaccess@ombudsman.org.uk
Changes to Adult Day Care Services in Westminster
Westminster Council has launched a public consultation over whether to close the Westminster Centre for Independent Living (WCIL) in Westbourne Park Road, and replace it with a dementia resource centre. Other plans include increasing the number of places at the Pullen Day Centre in Pimlico, creating four older people's 'hubs' and reducing the number of direct supported hours allocated to people with learning disabilities.
The 12-week consultation will run from July 4 to October 1, and any changes approved will be implemented in 2012.
For more info and to find out how you can respond see the Council website; http://www.westminster.gov.uk/services/healthandsocialcare/adultservices/careviews/dayservices/
NICE consults on new draft quality standards and guidance on service user experience in mental health and patient experience in NHS services
The National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) has launched a consultation on its draft quality standards and draft guidance on service user experience in adult mental health and patient experience in adult NHS services.
Individuals and organisations not registered as stakeholders are not able to comment, you will need to register as a stakeholder or contact the registered stakeholder organisation that most closely represents your interests and pass your comments to them.
These draft standards/draft guidance are available for consultation on the NICE website from Tuesday 21 June until 5.00pm on Tuesday 19 July at:
http://www.nice.org.uk/guidance/index.jsp?action=byID&o=13260
Registration of primary medical services providers by the Care Quality Commission: a consultation on a proposed change in the date of registration
All providers of ‘regulated activities’ in the field of health care and ‘adult social care’ are required to register with the Care Quality Commission (CQC). In order to be registered with the CQC providers are required to comply with a set of registration requirements that establishment essential levels of safety and quality.
From April 2012, providers of primary medical services for the NHS are due to enter the registration system. This includes GP practices, out of hours providers of primary medical care services and NHS walk-in centres.
The Government proposes to change the start date for registration of GP practices to April 2013, while proposing that the registration of out of hours providers and NHS walk-in centres should still go ahead in April 2012.
Launch date: 17 June 2011
Closing date: 29 July 2011
Consultation details and information on how to respond: http://www.dh.gov.uk/en/Consultations/Liveconsultations/DH_127174
Consultation document: http://www.dh.gov.uk/prod_consum_dh/groups/dh_digitalassets/documents/digitalasset/dh_127687.pdf
Response form: http://www.dh.gov.uk/prod_consum_dh/groups/dh_digitalassets/documents/digitalasset/dh_127682.doc
Care Quality Commission launches consultation on excellence in social care
The Care Quality Commission (CQC) has launched a consultation on a new excellence award for adult social care services in England.
The new voluntary award, due to launch in April 2012, will be delivered by third party organisations under licence to CQC.
The consultation seeks people’s views on a definition of excellence, developed by the Social Care Institute for Excellence (SCIE), and key aspects of the assessment process.
The consultation runs until 1 August 2011
You can respond to the consultation on the CQC website. http://www.cqc.org.uk/yourviews/consultations/excellenceaward.cfm
By email - fill in the response sheet downloadable from the CQC websiteand attach it to an email and send to: excellenceconsult@cqc.org.uk.
By post - use the response sheet downloaded from CQC website and send the completed response sheet to:
CQC National Correspondence,
Citygate,
Gallowgate
Newcastle upon Tyne
NE1 4PA
Seeking your views: A consultation on the way the Taxicard service is provided
Westminster City Council launched a consultation on changes to its Taxicard service last week. Taxicards enable people with mobility needs to travel in black cabs at reduced fares. People with the greatest mobility needs can apply for additional journeys on top of the 70 journeys that everyone receives.
The deadline is 6th June 2011.
You can fill in an online form or call or email
Email: taxicardviews@westminster.gov.uk
Call: 020 7641 5780
Consultation details here; http://www.westminster.gov.uk/services/healthandsocialcare/adultservices/taxicard-consultation/
Children's Congenital Cardiac Services
The NHS has launched a major four month public consultation on the way children’s congenital heart services should be provided in England and Wales in the future.
Among proposed options to improve services is a reduction in the number of hospitals providing children’s heart surgery from 11 to six or seven. The review also proposes that many non-surgical services, such as diagnosis, assessments and ongoing care, are provided closer to families’ homes.
The public consultation runs until 1 July 2011.
Full consultation document; http://www.specialisedservices.nhs.uk/document/safe-sustainable-a-new-vision-children-s-congenital-heart-services-in-england-consultation-document
Press release; http://www.specialisedservices.nhs.uk/news/view/27
To complete the response form online please visit: www.ipsos-mori.com/safeandsustainable.
Equality Act 2010: Ending age discrimination in services, public functions and associations - A consultation
Older people will receive new protection from discrimination under proposals published for consultation by the government.
The plans will make it unlawful to unfairly discriminate against someone because of their age when providing goods and services.
Specific exceptions will allow companies to continue to offer beneficial services to certain age groups – for example free bus travel for over-60s, or holidays aimed at people aged 30 and under.
Providers of financial services, such as insurance companies, will still be allowed to use age when assessing risk and deciding prices. However, the new law, which will take effect from April 2012, will mean they have to base such decisions on solid evidence rather than simply imposing a blanket ban. Insurers will also be asked to help people find an alternative provider if they are unable to provide cover for age-related reasons.
Consultation ends on 25 May 2011
More information here:
http://www.equalities.gov.uk/equality_act_2010/age_consultation_2011.aspx