Wider healthcare

Wider healthcare

When we make recommendations in our policy work to improve the health, safety and well-being of patients and the public, changing how professional regulators do things can be the right approach, but we do not assume it is always the best thing to do.

For this reason we respond to proposals made by other organisations to change how healthcare is delivered. These plans often have an impact on professional regulation, either directly or indirectly and we believe it is important that any new policy brings benefits to patient safety and public protection.

Consultation responses

• EC Green Paper: Modernising the Professional Qualifications Directive (September 2011)
• Response to NHS Future Forum invitation for views (May 2011)
• Response to House of Lords Subcommittee on the Professional Qualifications Directive (Jun 2011)
• EC consultation on the Professional Qualifications Directive (March 2011)
• DH consulation on Equity and Excellence: Liberating the NHS white paper (Oct 2010) 
• DH consultation on Direct Payments for Healthcare (Jan 2010) 
• Prime Minister’s Commission on the Future of Nursing and Midwifery (Aug 2009) 
• Welsh Rural Health Plan (Aug 2009) 
• Response to European Commission Directorate-General for Health and Consumers (DG Sanco) Green Paper on the European Workforce for Health (Mar 2009)
• European Commission’s proposal for a Directive on the Application of Patients’ Rights in Cross-border Healthcare (Scottish Government Health Directorates, Dec 2008) 
• Scottish Government’s proposal for Patients’ Rights Bill (January 2009)
• NHS Constitution (Department of Health, Oct 2008)
• Health Select Committee Inquiry into Patient Safety (Health Select Committee, Sept 2008)