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Health White Paper - Equity and excellence: Liberating the NHS
28 July 2010
The Health White Paper provides a series of opportunities and challenges for the sector. Contained within the White Paper are plans which include a shake-up of the design and delivery of health and care services locally. These will be administered by Consortia consisting of local authorities, GPs and communities. It is through communities that the voluntary and community sector (VCS) might have the opportunity to influence, shape and deliver services as appropriate. In this context, it is important that as many support and frontline VCS organisations as possible respond to the consultation process which will include a North West event in September (date tba).
Consultation topics:
- Commissioning for Patients: the intended arrangements for GP commissioning and the NHS Commissioning Board's role in supporting consortia and holding them to account.
- Local Democratic Legitimacy in Health: information on proposals for increasing local democratic legitimacy in health, through a clear and enhanced role for local government.
- Regulating Health Care Providers: proposals for foundation trusts and the establishment of an economic regulator for health and adult social care.
- Transparency in Outcomes - a framework for the NHS: proposals for developing an NHS Outcomes Framework.
Review Document - Report of the Arm's-Length Bodies Review: the proposals toabolish some arm's-length bodies, streamline the functions of others, and the transfer of functions to other bodies.
Health White Paper Briefing: outlines the main proposals of Equity and Excellence: Liberating the NHS and also some implications for the voluntary and community sector.
Health White Paper - Equity and excellence: Liberating the NHS
Featured Event
Open Public Services - Passage of a bill workshop
This VSNW/Parliamentary Outreach Service event will explore the stages that the bill would go through, their relative importance and ways to engage and influence
Featured News
Transforming Local Infrastructure Fund results announced
The beneficiaries of the £30 million fund to help transform and modernise local charity support services have been announced by Nick Hurd, Minister for Civil Society.
Relaunch of Voluntary Sector Cuts Website
The Voluntary Sector Cuts website has now been relaunched with additional functionality to enable VCS organisations to records cuts to funding and their effects
Views sought on Department of Health draft statutory guidance
VSNW are requesting your views on draft statutory guidance as support for joint strategic needs assessments and health and wellbeing strategies
Events & Trainings
VSNW’s list of events & training opportunities for VCS groups in the North West
