Consultation responses

Officials at the Equality and Human Rights Commission and Care Quality Commission are now analysing responses and will be producing a summary report and recommendations for amendments to the guidance. This report and the guidance will be published online at the end of January 2011.

Consultation seeking views about the future of the ‘right to request time to train’ legislation and whether the right should be repealed, retained for large organisations or extended to small and medium sized organisations as planned.

The Home Office launched this targeted consultation in August 2010 to provide an early opportunity for drugs sector organisations and other key partners to influence the development of the new drug strategy. The government aThe Home Office launched this targeted consultation in August 2010 to provide an early opportunity for drugs sector organisations and other key partners to influence the development of the new drug strategy. The government plans to publish a high level drug strategy in late 2010.to publish a high level drug strategy later in 2010.

This consultation seeks views on the draft guidance to health and social care services. The guidance has been drafted to support the implementation of the Autism Strategy 'Fulfilling and rewarding lives'.

This consultation is focused upon the Care Quality Commission's approach to embedding equality and human rights into its work and approach to its own employees.

The College gives legal support to our members in relation to any proceedings bought against them by the nursing profession’s regulator, the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC). The College therefore has unique and significant first hand experience of the processes currently in place for the adjudication of the fitness to practise of nurses, and receives invaluable feedback from the nursing profession on the NMC’s mechanisms for delivering adjudication. The College has also monitored with interest the work undertaken in recent years by the Office of Health Professions Adjudication and the CHRE.

All the views gathered throughout the 12 week consultation will be assessed by DFID, from online responses to meetings with partners in India, South Africa, Kenya and the UK. Later this year they will publish a summary of responses of all the feedback submitted.

Faced with today’s economic and political challenges, the strong partnership working between nurses and doctors is critical for securing high quality care in general practice. The RCN is keen to work with its BMA colleagues to this end.

We have taken the opportunity to review revised guidance from the Co-operation and Competition Panel and raise the same key points as the RCN raised in the initial version of guidance.

The Department for Work and Pensions commissioned Professor Malcolm Harrington to unundertake an independent review of the Work Capability Assessment, as required by section 10 of the Welfare Reform Act 2007.