Consultations

  • Department of Health Consultation on the new Care Quality Commission

    • The Department of Health are now consulting on the 'registration requirements' that service providers will have to meet. These regulations will cover all services regulated by the Care Quality Commission, and will be the regulations that are used to register services, inspect them and take enforcement action if necessary. Click here for more information on the Consultation and Events.

  • Post Office Closures
    • The Post Office is starting a series of public consultations on the closure of post offices. There will be 46 area plans throughout the country with a 6 week consultation period for each. The first of these, for Kent, East Midlands and East Yorkshire, start on 2 October. For further information see www.postoffice.co.uk/networkchange
  • NICE Interventional Procedures Consultations
    • The National Institute for Health & Clinical Excellence (NICE) consults on medical interventional procedures, such as surgery or laser treatment, before publishing guidance on whether the procedures work well enough and are safe enough for use in the NHS. The NICE Interventional Procedures Advisory Committee welcomes responses from individual patients, carers and patient and carer organisations in England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland. A wide range of procedures are considered.  Information on the consultation system, and forthcoming investigations is available on www.nice.org.uk