National Voices has joined a group of hospice provider charities to brief peers in the House of Lords on their concerns that the voluntary sector could be squeezed out of local commissioning by misinterpretation of new regulations on procurement.
The ‘section 75’ regulations under the Health and Social Care Act 2012 risk being seen by commissioners as a requirement to put all but a minority of services out to competitive tender.
The House of Lords will debate the regulations on 24th April 2013.