Over the past nine years, many vital issues involving patients have emerged and we believe that it is essential that the patients' viewpoint is put forward. We are often asked for advice and comment by professional bodies and we submit responses to virtually every major consultation, including:
DoH (Department of Health)
- Good doctors, safer patients
- Medical Act 1983 (Amendments) and Miscellaneous Amendments Order 2006
- Independent mental capacity advocacy service
- Call for ideas - clinical performance and medical regulation
- Call for ideas – review of non-medical professional regulation
- Pharmacists and pharmacy technicians Order 2006
- Reforming the complaints procedure: draft regulations
- Making amends
- Fair for all: personal to you
- Your guide to the NHS
- National review of commissioning special services
- Removal, retention and use of human organs: code of practice for post mortems
- Modernising regulation in the health professions
- NHS Plan: patient and public involvement in the NHS
- Single sex hospital accommodation
- Privacy and dignity
- Examination and consent to retention and use of organs
- Patient choice agenda
- Electronic records and consent
- New arrangements for handling health and social care complaints
- Personal Healthcare budgets
- Making Experiences Count
- NHS draft constitution
Ministry 0f Justice(formerly Department of Constitutional Affairs)
- Making Decisions: helping people who have difficulty deciding for themselves
- Mental Capacity Act 2005: draft code of practice
- Mental Capacity Act 2005: draft research regulations
- Mental Capacity Act 2005: Court of Protection Rules
- Review of Mental Capacity Act 2005: forms, supervision and fees
GMC (General Medical Council)
- Writing references
- Acting as an Expert Witness
- GMC's Equality Scheme
- Draft Good Medical Practice (third edition)
- Making and using video and audio recordings of patients
- Withholding and withdrawing life-prolonging treatment
- Medical research: the role and responsibilities of doctors
- Review of prescribing guidance
- Good Medical Practice (fourth edition)
- Reform of the GMC's constitution and governance
- Reform of the fitness to practice procedures
- Revalidation of doctors' competence
- Consent – the ethical considerations
- Records retention
- Supplementary guidance on: a) raising concerns b) maintaining boundaries c) conflicts of interest d) reporting criminal and regulatory proceedings
- Confidentiality
NMC (Nursing and Midwifery Council)
- The annual registration fee
- Standards for the maintenance and renewal of registration
- Proposals from a review of the fitness to practice at point of registration
- The new register
- Specialist community public health nursing
- Fitness to practice
- Making consultation work
- Record keeping guidelines for nurses and midwives
GDC (General Dental Council)
- Guidance for the Professional Performance Committee, Health Committee and on Preleasing Committee
- Developments to the system for assessing overseas (non-EEA) dentists
- Principles for raising concerns
- Learning from complaints
- Education of professionals complementary to dentistry
- Local practitioner advice and support scheme
Office of the Public Guardian
- Lasting powers of attorney
- Doctors' fitness to practice and the role of the GMC
- Complaints and whistle-blowing
- Safeguarding patients
IO (Information Commissioner)
BMA (British Medical Association)
- Healthcare funding review
- Cardiopulmonary resuscitation
- Withholding and withdrawing treatment
- Consent to hospital post mortem
- A rational way forward for the NHS in England
- Electronic care records
- Organ donation
General Optical Council
- Statement of values for healthcare professionals
HTA (Human Tissue Authority)
- Codes of practice on a) consent b) donation of organs, tissues and cells for transplantation c) post mortem examinations d) anatomical examinations e) removal/collection, retention and disposal of organs and tissue
- Regulations to be made under the Human Tissue Act 2004
Healthcare Commission, formerly Commission for Health Audit and Inspection
- Plan for improvement in health of adults with learning disabilities 2006-2009
- Vision for CHAI
- Inspecting informing improving
- Developing the annual health check for 2006/2007
NICE (National Institute for Clinical Excellence)
- Guidance on new interventional procedures
- Routing pre-operative testing
- Clinical guidelines: pressure ulcer prevention
- Clinical guidelines: multiple sclerosis
- Social value judgements: guidelines for the Institute
Royal College of Psychiatrists
- Regulating private and voluntary healthcare
- Consultants' report on involving service users and carers
Royal College of Surgeons
- Good Surgical Practice 2002
Royal College of Physicians
- Good medical practice for physicians
- Vegetative state report
- Good medical practice for occupational physicians
Commission for Healthcare Regulatory Excellence
- Harmonising sanctions across healthcare regulators
- Good character (of healthcare professionals)
Organ Donation Taskforce
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