NEWS - JANUARY 2014
RESPONSE FROM SECRETARY OF STATE TO LETTER RE. DUTY OF CANDOUR
In response to joint letter sent to the Rt. Hon. Jeremy Hunt MP in December from:
In response to joint letter sent to the Rt. Hon. Jeremy Hunt MP in December from:
- Peter Walsh ……. Chief Executive, Action against Medical Accidents
- Julie Bailey ………. Founder, Cure the NHS
- Jeremy Taylor ….. Chief Executive, National Voices
- Dr. Kin Holt ………. Chair, Patients First
- Ruth Marsden ….. Healthwatch and Public Involvement Association
LOCAL HEALTHWATCH RESPONSIBILITY RE. SAFEGUARDING BOARD
Schedule 2 - Safeguarding Adults Boards … Care Bill [Lords] - 2:30 pm 21st Jan
Norman Lamb (The Minister of State, Department of Health; North Norfolk, Liberal Democrat)
The Bill places a duty on safeguarding adults boards to publish their annual reports, as she mentioned. Those reports will be publicly available to ensure transparency regarding the way that the boards work. That means that the Secretary of State and the chief inspectors, like anyone else, will be able freely to access and review the reports of all safeguarding adults boards. I agree with the shadow Minister that themes may well emerge from analysis of those annual reports. The analysis could be by pressure groups and so on, which could be enormously valuable in putting pressure on the system and demanding change.
Safeguarding adults boards will operate at a local level. We would expect the local healthwatch and health and wellbeing boards to monitor the safeguarding adults boards’ progress and report to the Secretary of State if there were particular matters of concern about their operation. That would again put the health and wellbeing boards centre stage in the local health care system. We would also expect them to report to the chief inspector of adult social care if there were particular matters of concern about a board’s operation, or about a registered provider of adult social care.
Significantly, the Bill places adult safeguarding on a statutory basis for the first time with the local authority in a lead role and places beyond doubt that the police and the NHS are key partners in the prevention, detection of and response to abuse. The Bill is designed to strengthen the culture of transparency and accountability in adult safeguarding by requiring community engagement, public reporting, statutory safeguarding adults reviews, and the involvement of local Healthwatch organisations. With those things in place, we will have a strong and effective mechanism if something goes wrong.
Schedule 2 - Safeguarding Adults Boards … Care Bill [Lords] - 2:30 pm 21st Jan
Norman Lamb (The Minister of State, Department of Health; North Norfolk, Liberal Democrat)
The Bill places a duty on safeguarding adults boards to publish their annual reports, as she mentioned. Those reports will be publicly available to ensure transparency regarding the way that the boards work. That means that the Secretary of State and the chief inspectors, like anyone else, will be able freely to access and review the reports of all safeguarding adults boards. I agree with the shadow Minister that themes may well emerge from analysis of those annual reports. The analysis could be by pressure groups and so on, which could be enormously valuable in putting pressure on the system and demanding change.
Safeguarding adults boards will operate at a local level. We would expect the local healthwatch and health and wellbeing boards to monitor the safeguarding adults boards’ progress and report to the Secretary of State if there were particular matters of concern about their operation. That would again put the health and wellbeing boards centre stage in the local health care system. We would also expect them to report to the chief inspector of adult social care if there were particular matters of concern about a board’s operation, or about a registered provider of adult social care.
Significantly, the Bill places adult safeguarding on a statutory basis for the first time with the local authority in a lead role and places beyond doubt that the police and the NHS are key partners in the prevention, detection of and response to abuse. The Bill is designed to strengthen the culture of transparency and accountability in adult safeguarding by requiring community engagement, public reporting, statutory safeguarding adults reviews, and the involvement of local Healthwatch organisations. With those things in place, we will have a strong and effective mechanism if something goes wrong.
PATIENT AND PUBLIC VOICE REPRESENTATIVES FOR THE QUALITY AND CLINICAL RISK (QCR) COMMITTEE
09 January 2014
The QCR Committee, a formal Committee of NHS England's Board, is recruiting up to three Patient and Public Voice (PPV) representatives.
http://www.england.nhs.uk2014/01/09/qcr-reps
09 January 2014
The QCR Committee, a formal Committee of NHS England's Board, is recruiting up to three Patient and Public Voice (PPV) representatives.
http://www.england.nhs.uk2014/01/09/qcr-reps
PATIENTS ASKED TO OPT OUT OR BE INCLUDED IN DATABASE
06 January 2014
NHS England has begun sending leaflets out to every household in England to inform residents that information from their patient records will be used in a national database unless they actively opt out.
LETTER FOR DISSENT FROM SECONDARY USE OF PATIENT IDENTIFIABLE DATA
06 January 2014
NHS England has begun sending leaflets out to every household in England to inform residents that information from their patient records will be used in a national database unless they actively opt out.
LETTER FOR DISSENT FROM SECONDARY USE OF PATIENT IDENTIFIABLE DATA
HEALTHWATCH - CONFLICT OF INTEREST ?
- What does Healthwatch Do?
- Why was it set up?
- Local Healthwatch - How Governors can get involved
- Healthwatch and Foundation Trust Governors