Consultation responses

The Department of Health has recently consulted on proposals for piloting direct payments for health care. This is part of the wider programme to explore the personalisation of health services targets announced in the NHS Next Stage Review. This consultation closed on 8 January 2010 and here you can read the RCN response.

Nursing is a physically and psychologically demanding job and nurses and health care assistants face a number of occupational hazards which can impact on their health, safety and wellbeing. Nurses and other healthcare workers deserve the protection that is afforded to them by the Health and Safety at Work etc Act 1974 and associated European legislation.

Draft stakeholder consultation (Draft 3) of the Guidelines for the Management of Norovirus Outbreaks in Acute and Community Health and Social Care Settings.

Support and aspiration: A new approach to special educational needs and disability makes wide-ranging proposals to respond to the frustrations of children and young people, their families and the professionals who work with them.

Proposals for an updated, UK-wide strategic approach to planning for and responding to the demands of an influenza pandemic.

This policy review paper sought views on new draft regulations imposing specific duties to support better performance of the public sector equality duty.

This consultation sets out the proposed amendments to the Reporting of Injuries, Diseases and Dangerous Occurrences Regulations 1995 (RIDDOR) first put forward in Lord Young's report "Common Sense, Common Safety".

The document up for consultation set out standards for psychological support which should be available for all adults living with HIV in the UK.

Read the RCN's response to 'Planning Transition to Adulthood for Looked After Children Guidance and on the amended Children (Leaving Care (England) Regulations 2001)'.

The RCN welcomes the policy initiatives outlined in the consultation document, in particular the creation of a fund to sustain the pension entitlements of UK public sector workers who participate as volunteers.