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CONSULTATIONS
Regulation of Health and
Social Care Professionals
The Law Commission for England and Wales,
the Scottish Law Commission and the Northern Ireland Law Commission
have published a joint consultation on regulation of healthcare
professionals.
The consultation paper and summary can be
found here.
The Law Commissions were seeking views on
how a new legal framework would:
- give the regulators increased flexibility in the use of their
powers while ensuring public accountability:
- enable them to ensure proper standards of professional
education, conduct and practice; and
- have at its heart a duty on the regulators to protect the
public.
The Academy of Medical Royal Colleges has
produced a summary of proposals and questions, which can be
accessed here. Many
of the questions and proposals are matters of detail that will not
be of immediate concern to Colleges. However there do appear to be
a number of important issues raised.
For a copy of the College's response,
please click here.
National Institute for Health and
Clinical Excellence (NICE), Proposed Health
Technology Appraisal
Review proposal of Guidance No: 98; Methylphenidate,
atomoxetine and dexamfetamine for the treatment of attention
deficit hyperactivity disorder in children and adolescents
(including a review of guidance TA13)
This guidance was issued in March 2006, and the review date is
September 2011.
The
Guidance Executive (GE) Proposal paper and provisional
matrix of consultees and commentators are now available to
download.
Home Office - Forced Marriage
Consultation
The Home Office were seeking views on:
- whether forcing someone to marry should be a made a criminal
offence or whether current arrangements provide adequate
protection;
- how to deter forced marriages from taking place; and
- how they might implement the criminalisation of breaches of the
civil Forced Marriage Protection Orders - A FMPO is an order
which may contain any number of provisions as the court deems
necessary to protect an individual who is at risk of forced
marriage or who has already been forced into a marriage.
Please click
here to access all relevant documents. Please click here to access the College's response
(April 2012).
Mental Health (Secondary Mental Health
Services)(Wales) Order 2012
As part of the Welsh Government’s work in preparation for
commencement of the Mental Health (Wales) Measure 2010, a draft
Order has been developed to provide further definition about what
are to be considered Secondary Mental Health Services under the
Measure. The Welsh Government is seeking your views on
the Mental Health (Secondary Mental Health Services)(Wales)
Order 2012.
This Order has the effect of:
- excluding any service provided as part of a local primary
mental health support service under Part 1 of the Measure from
being considered as a secondary mental health service, and
- enabling secondary mental health services provided elsewhere in
the United Kingdom to be considered as secondary mental health
services for Part 3 of the Measure in Wales.
The Divisional
Response is now available (14 March 2012)
The Welsh Government has prepared
guidance to Local Health Boards (LHBs) and local authorities
and others as an aid when considering the definition of ‘secondary
mental health services’ as set out in the Mental Health (Wales)
Measure 2010 and the Mental Health (Secondary Mental Health
Services) (Wales) Order 2012, and in developing joint schemes for
the provision of local primary mental health support services under
Part 1 of the Mental Health (Wales) Measure 2010.
Welsh Government - Children and
Young People's Continuing Care Guidance
The
Guidance Document covers the continuing care packages that
should be in place where existing services are lacking. “Continuing
care” is for children and young people who require services due to
“disability, accident or illness”.
The guidance comprises:
- A continuing care process which outlines the principles,
timelines and the phases involved in assessing and arranging
provision of packages of continuing care. It also considers
transition from child to adult services.
- An assessment toolkit to aid identification of continuing care
needs in children and young people and a children and young
people’s Decision Support Tool to assist local decision making
about the care that is needed.
- A continuing care pathway to help plan, design, deliver and
evaluate services.
- Details of the legal framework for children and young people’s
continuing care.
The Divisional
Response is now available (13 March 2012)
The Mental Health (Primary Care
Referrals and Eligibility to Conduct Primary Mental Health
Assessments) (Wales) Regulations 2012
These Regulations propose arrangements which will enable GPs to
refer individuals to local primary mental health support services
(including individuals who are not registered with them). The
Regulations also set out eligibility requirements for those who may
undertake primary mental health assessments.
The
Divisional Response is now available (27 January 2012). The
response from the Royal College of GPs will be made available once
in the public domain. If you have any queries, please contact Manel
on 029 2048 9006.
The Welsh Government will prepare guidance under Part 1 of the
Measure for Local Health Boards and Local Authorities on the
Establishment of Joint Schemes for the delivery of Local Primary
Mental Health Support Services. We will place this on our website
under Welsh Policy Updates, once it has been published.
Draft Code of
Practice on Parts 2 and 3 of the Mental Health (Wales) Measure,
2010
The Welsh Government's consultation on the draft Code of
Practice on Parts 2 and 3 of the Mental Health (Wales) Measure is
now closed. Part 2 relates to Care Coordination and Care
and Treatment Planning and Part 3 relates to the
Assessment of Former Users of Secondary Mental Health Services.
Click
here to download the Draft Code of Practice, Consultation
Document, and the Consultation Response Form from the Welsh
Government website.
The
Divisional Response is now available (17 January 2012).
The Health and
Social Care Inquiry into Residential Care for Older
People
The National Assembly for Wales' Health and Social Care
Committee is undertaking an inquiry into residental care for older
people. The Committee invited individuals and organisations to
provide evidence to assist them in examining the provision of
residential care in Wales and the ways in which it can meet the
current and future needs of older people, including:
- the process by which older people enter residential care and
the availability and accessibility of alternative community-based
services, including reablement services and domiciliary care.
- the capacity of the residential care sector to meet the demand
for services from older people in terms of staffing resources,
including the skills mix of staff and their access to training, and
the number of places and facilities, and resource levels.
- the quality of residential care services and the experiences of
service users and their families; the effectiveness of services at
meeting the diversity of need amongst older people; and the
management of care home closures.
- the effectiveness of the regulation and inspection arrangements
for residential care, including the scope for increased scrutiny of
service providers’ financial viability.
- new and emerging models of care provision.
- the balance of public and independent sector provision, and
alternative funding, management, and ownership models, such as
those offered by the cooperative, mutual sector and third sector,
and Registered Social Landlords.
Please click
here to access the original letter from the Chair of the
Committee.
The
Divisional Response is now available (16 December 2011). For a
link to all other responses to
the Inquiry click
here.
If you are interested, there is an opportunity to provide oral
evidence to the Committee sometime in spring 2012.
The Mental Health (Regional
Provision) (Wales) Regulations
2012
The Welsh Government's consultation on the Mental
Health (Regional Provision)(Wales) Regulations 2012 is now closed.
The Regulations would enable Local Health Boards (LHBs) and local
authorities in Wales to enter into regional working arrangements,
as opposed to local working arrangements. LHBs will agree
with the local authorities within their "patch" collectively,
and not with each local authority individually, on:
- schemes for the provision of local primary mental health
services (under Part 1); and
- arrangements for receiving self referrals and undertaking
timely arrangements (under Part 3).
Click
here to download the Regulations, Consultation Document, and
the Consultation Response Form from the Welsh Government
website.
The Divisional
Response is now available (16 December 2011).
NICE Review of
Clinical Guideline (CG77) Antisocial personality disorder:
treatment, management and prevention
Consultation Document to decide if CG77 should be updated.
The Divisional
Response is now available (24 October 2011).
NICE DRAFT SCOPE for clinical practice
guideline on the management of autism in children and young
people for use in the NHS in England, Wales and Northern
Ireland.
The draft scope defines what aspects of care
the guideline will cover and to whom it will apply. You can
access the draft scope here.
The Divisional Response is now
available (30 September 2011).
NICE Draft Service user
experience in adult mental health guidance and Quality Standard
consultation is now closed. The aims of the guidance are
to:
- develop recommendations and quality standards to provide a
framework describing key requirements for providing a high quality
service user experience;
- identify quality measures that set the expected degree of
achievement;
- identify key areas for improvement in current service user
experience;
- identify key areas for further research that are likely to
improve understanding of how to measure and improve the experience
of care within adult mental health services.
The Divisional
Draft response is now available (19 July 2011).
NICE Draft proposal for the review for update
of the Bipolar Disorder (CG38)
A review is being undertaken to decide whether
CG38 should be updated. Further details, the review proposal
consultation document can be found by following the
link below:
http://guidance.nice.org.uk/CG38/ReviewProposal
(end 15 June 2011).
NICE Draft proposal
for the review for update of the Schizophrenia Guideline
(CG82)
A review is being undertaken to decide whether
CG82 should be updated. Further details, the review proposal
consultation document can be found by following the
link below:
http://guidance.nice.org.uk/CG82/ReviewProposal
(end 24 June 2011).
NICE Draft
proposal for the review for update of the Eating Disorders
Guideline (CG9)
A review is being undertaken to decide whether
CG82 should be updated. Further details, the review proposal
consultation document and the comments proforma can all be found by
following the link below:
http://guidance.nice.org.uk/CG9/ReviewProposal (end
26 June2011).
NICE Draft Self-Harm (Longer Term
management) Clinical Guideline
The NICE draft Self-harm (longer-term
management) follows on from 'Self-harm: the short-term physical and
psychological management and secondary prevention of self-harm in
primary and secondary care' (NICE clinical guideline 16). It
is concerned with the longer-term psychological treatment and
management of self-harm, and does not include recommendations for
the physical treatment of self-harm.
The Divisional
Draft response is now available. (7 June 2011).
National Framework for
Children and Young People's Continuing Care - Informal Consultation
Document
Officials have been working with stakeholder gorups, policy
colleagues and lawyers for some time to finalise the draft National
Framework for Children and Young People's Continuing
Care.
The Divisional Draft
response is now available. (23 May 2011).
The Mental Health (Wales) Regulations
2011
- Part 2 The Mental Health
(Care Coordination and Care and Treatment Planning) (Wales)
Regulations 2011
- Part 3 The Mental Health
(Assessment of Former Users of Secondary Mental Health Services)
(Wales) Regulations 2011
- Part 4 The Mental Health
(Independent Mental Health Advocates) (Wales) Regulations 2011
The
Divisional Draft response is now available. (16 May 2011).
Consultation on the Strategic Vision for
Maternity Services in Wales
The Draft Strategy outlines the Welsh Assembly Governments
vision for high quality maternity services for the
future.
The Divisional
Draft response is now available (26 April 2011).
Autistic Spectrum Disorders
in Children and Young People: Guideline Consultation -
NICE
A clinical practice guideline on Autism spectrum disorders in
children and young people is being developed for use in the NHS in
England, Wales and Northern Ireland.
The Divisional Draft response is now
available. (25 March 2011).
Draft Guidance for Engagement and
Consultation on Changes to Health Services
If you wish to view the RCPsych in Wales response, please
contact the Divisional office.
Draft Good Practice Framework
for People with a Learning Disability requiring Planned Secondary
Care
This consultation is now closed.
If you wish to view the RCPsych in Wales response, please contact
the Divisional office.
Care Standards Act 2000: The Adult Placement
Scheme Regulatory and National Minimum Standards
Framework
2010.
This consultation has now
closed. If you wish to view the RCPsych in Wales response,
please contact the Divisional office.
Draft All Wales Obesity Pathway
This constulation has now closed.
Consultation on Proposed
Mental Health (Wales) Measure
The
Divisional Draft Response is now available. For a
link to all other responses to
the Measure click
here.
National Dementia Action Plan for Wales
If you wish to view the Welsh Division's response, please
contact the Divisional Office.
Rural Planning - improving service delivery across
Wales
If you wish to view the Welsh Division's response, please
contact the Divisional Office.
Consultation on Review of Secure Mental Health
Services
If you wish to view the Welsh Division's response, please
contact the Divisional Office.
Proposals for the future of Specialist and Tertiary
Services
Proposals on the future of Comunity Health Councils in
Wales
Unification of Public Health Services in
Wales
NHS National Patient Safety
Agency - Rapid Response Report - Resuscitation in
Mental Health and Learning Disability Settings
Mental Health Act Commission - Treatment under emergency power for
Supervised Community Treatment patients who are awaiting Second
Opinions - interim guidance for clinicians,
administrators & Mental Health Act Commissioners - January
2009
Technical Consultation on Eating Disorders:
Pathway for Wales.
The Welsh Division has formulated a response to the
'Technical Consultation Eating Disorders: Pathway for
Wales '.
'Talk to Me' - A National Action Plan to Reduce Suicide
and Self Harm in Wales
The Welsh Division has formulated a reponse to the 'Talk to Me'
consultation.
Working for Equality in Wales: Consultation
document for a Single Equality Scheme, Welsh Assembly
Government.
Welsh Division
Response to William's Paper
The Welsh Division has generated a response following
discussions held at the Division's Executive Committee Meeting
on 20/06/08 and a Division meeting with Edwina Hart, Minister for
Health and Social Services on 17/07/08. We were asked by Mrs
Hart to structure a response in this format i.e. a general response
and appendix of our perception of the barriers to service within
Mental Health.
Welsh Assembly Government Consultation: Iechyd Meddwl Cymru -
A Well Being and Mental Health Service Fit for
Wales
This paper was requested by Edwina Hart MBE, AM, The Minister
for Health and Social Services. Its principal recommendation
is that a Statutory Body responsible for Mental Health and well
being is established.
The closing date (02 September 2008) for responses has now
passed, and the Welsh Assembly Government plans to make all
responses publicly available - a link to this information will be
posted here as soon as it becomes available.
Consultation paper II - Delivering the new NHS for
Wales. The consultation paper provides details
for the next stage in the proposed reform of the NHS in Wales.
Statement by the Welsh Assembly Government - NHS Restructuring,
Edwina Hart, Minister for Health and Social Services - 11 November
2008
An oral statement from the Minister on the NHS reforms
Statement by the Welsh Assembly Government regarding NHS
Reorganisation in Wales by Edwina Hart, Minister for Health and
Social Services on 30 September 2008.
The Ministers statement regarding the Consultation of Proposals
to Change the Structure of the NHS in Wales.
Welsh
Assembly Government Consultation: Proposals to Change the
Structure of the NHS in Wales
Following a 12 week consultation which closed on 25 June 2008,
the emerging view is to create single local health organisations
that would be responsible for delivering all healthcare services
within a geographical area, rather than the Trust and Local Health
Board system currently operating.