Consultation responses
National Voices responds to relevant consultations from the Department of Health, other government departments, and other health and professional organisations.
Below are details of our submissions since May 2010
Strengthening the NHS Constitution
The consultation document can be found here.
The NV response (January 2013) can be found here.
Draft Care and Support Bill
The draft Care and Support Bill can be found here.
National Voices worked closely with the Care and Support Alliance to develop a full response to the Bill in its entirety.
The NV response (October 2012) can be found here.
The NV response to the Joint Committee Call for Evidence can be found here.
The Mandate to the Commissioning Board
The consultation document can be found here.
The final NV response can be found here.
Shared Decision Making
The consultation document (May 2012) can be found here.
See also our letter to Andrew Lansley which expressed our concerns that the consultation focused predominantly on the concept of provider choice, rather than shared decision making.
The final NV response can be found here.
UK plan for Rare Diseases
The consultation document (February 2012) can be found here.
Our response (May 2012) can be found here.
Delivering Dignity
The draft report (February 2012) from the Commission on Improving Dignity in Care, set up by the NHS Confederation, Age UK and the Local Government Association, can be found here.
Our response (March 2012) can be found here.
The final report (June 2012) can be downloaded here.
NHS Commissioning Board Business Plan
Our response to the draft indicative plan (January 2012) can be found here.
The NHS Commissioning Board's first Business Plan (April - October 2012) can be found here.
Guidance on Joint Health and Wellbeing Strategies
Our response to the pre-consultation draft (January 2012) can be found here.
NICE Guidance and Quality Standard on patient experience (generic)
Our submission (July 2011) can be found here.
The final NICE Standard and guidelines can be found here.
NHS Future Forum (1)
9 big shouts (May 2011) summarised all the positions taken by National Voices, its members, and other charities on the White Paper proposals and the Health and Social Care Bill 2011; and proposed specific improvements, many of which were addressed in the Future Forum's report and the government's response.
Passage of the Health and Social Care Bill
Links to the parliamentary evidence and briefings that National Voices submitted during the passage of the Bill can be found here.
Value based pricing of prescription medicines
The consultation document (December 2010) can be found here.
Our response (March 2011) can be found here.
Health select committee: inquiry into complaints and litigation
Our submission (December 2010) can be found here.
The Select Committee report (June 2011), citing the evidence of National Voices and its member, AvMA, proposed new mechanisms to ensure the NHS is candid to patients and their families when mistakes are made; and called for further improvements to the complaints system. The report can be found here.
White Paper: Liberating the NHS
In 2010 the coalition government set out its plans for health reform in a White Paper, 'Equity and Excellence: Liberating the NHS', and a series of associated consultations.
The various consultation documents and our responses can be found here.
