Consultations

NAVCA's consultation responses:

• Healthy Lives, Healthy People: Our strategy for public health in England
  A number of consultation questions were set out in Chapter 4 and summarised in Chapter 5 of this white paper.
• Healthy lives, healthy people: consultation on the funding and commissioning routes for public health
  Exporing the proposed funding and commissioning routes for Public Health England, including the ring-fenced budget provided to local authorities.
• Healthy Lives, Healthy People: transparency in outcomes - proposals for a public health outcomes framework
  Exploring the proposed public health outcomes framework.
• Commission on Funding of Care and Support
  The Commission on Funding of Care and Support is an independent body that will make recommendations to Government on how to achieve an affordable and sustainable funding system for care and support. The Commission launched a Call for Evidence to hear ideas on what a future funding system for care and support should look like.
• Transparency in outcomes: a framework for adult social care
  Consulting on a new strategic approach to quality and outcomes in adult social care.
• NAVCA submitted two further consultation responses on aspects of the proposals in the Health White Paper. Our responses can be downloaded below.                    
  • Greater choice and control (Jan 2011)
  • An Information Revolution (Jan 2011)
• NAVCA has submitted responses to each of the four consultation documents on specific aspects of the Health White Paper, Equity and Excellence: Liberating the NHS. Our responses can be downloaded below.                  
  • Increasing democratic legitimacy in health
  • Commissioning for patients (Oct 2010)
  • Regulating healthcare providers (Oct 2010)
  • Transparency in outcomes

Older consultation responses:

• Personal Care At Home - A consultation on proposals for regulations and guidance (Feb 2010) 
  Outlining NAVCA's views on proposals for development of personal care by local authorities.
• NHS Constitution: A consultation on new patient rights (Feb 2010) 
  NAVCA's views on proposals for development of aspects of the constitution.
• Personal Health Budgets: A Consultation on Proposals in Regulation and Guidance - Response from Regional Voices and NAVCA (Jan 2010)
• Joint response to the Green Paper - Shaping the future of care together (NAVCA and Regional Voices Nov 2009) 
  The biggest consultation NAVCA responded to in 2009 was the Big Care Debate: Shaping the future of care, exploring ideas for paying for long term care and development of the National Care Service.
• Quality and Productivity challenge (Oct 2009) 
  One of the biggest challenges for the NHS within the current financial climate is how to improve quality and improve productivity at the same time as making unprecedented efficiency gains. All this needs to be done within a context of rapid demographic and technological change: This consultation response sets out NAVCA's views on how this might be achieved.