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Current consultations from the Department of Health in closing date order (latest closing date first)
Closing date: 5 May 2008
This is a 12-week consultation seeking views from stakeholders on a revised edition of the Code of Practice and Guidance on Genetic Paternity Testing Services (March 2001), which is being amended to reflect law changes since 2001.
Closing date: 22 March 2008
This order is the second in a series of orders that will take forward the reforms of professional regulation identified in the White Paper 'Trust assurance and safety'. It concentrates on reforms set out in the White Paper, but also includes measures required to deliver other legislative requirements.
Closing date: 20 March 2008
The third sector funding and investment review is seeking to turn the current piecemeal arrangements for funding third sector organisations into a strategic portfolio of investments that are explicity linked with DH priorities. Feedback and publication of a response document are expected in early summer of 2008.
Closing date: 11 March 2008
'Valuing people' set out the Government's vision for people with a learning disability across a range of services based on the four key principles of rights, independence, choice and inclusion. 'Valuing people now' seeks people's views on the priorities for the learning disability agenda over the next three years
Closing date: 6 March 2008
A consultation document seeking views on introducing powers of suspension and a single approach to the removal of chairs and non-executives of Primary Care Trusts and NHS Trusts from office.
Closing date: 5 March 2008
The Care Services Improvement Partnership (CSIP) has developed draft guidance for consultation on ‘Finding a shared vision of how people’s mental health problems should be understood’. The guidance is aimed at everyone concerned with the development and delivery of services including people that use services and their carers.
Closing date: 4 March 2008
The publication of this document signals the start of a consultation process on how health and social care services can be improved for people subject to the criminal justice system. This is a joint initiative between the Department of Health, Department of Children, Schools and Families, Ministry of Justice, Youth Justice Board and the Home Office. Between them, these government departments/agencies have responsibility for health, social care and all the component services within the criminal justice system.
Closing date: 22 February 2008
The Health Care and Associated Professions Order is the first in a series of Orders that will take forward the reforms identified in the White Paper. This Order concentrates on the reforms set out in Chapter One of the White Paper (Assuring independence: the governance and accountability of the professional regulators) but also includes measures that are required to deliver other legislative requirements and some items that have been identified by the regulators as needing urgent reform.
Closing date: 22 February 2008
The UK’s plans for responding to an influenza pandemic are set out in the recently published Pandemic Flu: A national framework for responding to an influenza pandemic. To assist responders in developing their local plans further draft guidance has been produced with the participation and advice of subject experts and representatives from key stakeholder groups.
We are seeking wider comments on these drafts and would particularly welcome views and contributions from those individuals and organisations involved in pandemic influenza planning and preparedness. These will be collated and analysed in depth and used to inform final guidance on this issue, which will be available on the DH website in the summer.
Closing date: 22 February 2008
The consultation on possible changes to medicines and associated legislation for use during a pandemic suggests ways to maintain people's access to regular essential medicines in this period and looks at the amendments which are required to support the operational framework. It asks when these changes might be brought into force and when they should be lifted, how far existing safeguards should be relaxed to ensure access and whether there are other barriers to access that should be considered.
Closing date: 20 February 2008
The implementationof the Independent Safeguarding Authority scheme under the Safeguarding Vulnerable Groups Act 2006 will introduce the most stringent vetting and barring service yet. The scheme will protect both children and vulnerable adults by preventing those who are known to pose a risk of harm from accessing these groups through their work. The consultation seeks views on a wide range of policy issues that will ensure the successful implementation of the Act. This consultation is published jointly with the Department for Children, Schools and Families and the Home Office
Closing date: 15 February 2008
This consultation sets out options for a new careers framework for post registration nursing. It fulfills a commitment in Modernising Nursing Careers setting the direction (2006) to align nursing careers with the NHS Careers Framework and develop new career paths for nursing. It proposes a framework built around patient care pathways and seeks responses from as many people as possible before any further work is done.
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