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Local authority health overview and scrutiny: A consultation

  • Launch date:
    23 January 2002
  • Closing date:
    30 April 2002
  • Creator/s:
    Department of Health
  • Audience:
    Health and social care professionals
  • Copyright holder:
    Crown

This web-based consultation exercise on the Government's intentions for local authority overview and scrutiny committees (OSCs) to represent democratically views on the quality, performance and development of health services to local NHS bodies. The consultation document builds on the proposals first set out in the NHS Plan.

The following Roadshows are being organised by the event management company Keystone. For more information on the roadshows please call Keystone on 01453 835626

  • 18 March 2002, at the Clarendon Suite in Birmingham.
  • 20 March 2002, at the Centre for Life in Newcastle Upon Tyne.
  • 25 March 2002, at the Pavillion in Harrogate
  • 26 March 2002, at the Dunkenhalgh Hotel, Blackburn.
  • 15 April 2002, at the Hop Farm Country Park, Tunbridge Wells.
  • 17 April 2002, at the St. Georges Hall in Exeter
  • 18 April 2002, at the Callum Hall Hotel, in Newark.
  • 19 April 2002, Paragon Hotel London.

This document sets out our intentions for local authority overview and scrutiny committees (OSCs) to represent democratically local views on the quality, performance and development of health services to local NHS bodies. The introduction of overview and scrutiny of the NHS by local government will strengthen the way public and patients views and concerns are represented. It will complement the work being done within the NHS to ensure the service is responsive to people's needs, listens to their views, and acts on their concerns. The need for external scrutiny is part of the strategy to realise the Government's ambition to create a patient-centred NHS.

Consultation response

  • Contact:
    MB Health Scrutiny Consultation
  • Address:
    Department of Health
    Room 608 Richmond House, 79 Whitehall
    London,
    SW1A 2NS
  • Fax:
    MB Health Scrutiny Consultation020 7210 4902
  • Email:
    MBHealthScrutinyConsultation@doh.gsi.gov.uk

How to respond

I would welcome your comments on the proposals for the new arrangements outlined in the document, your suggestions as to how to improve them together with any general points you may want to make. You may e-mail, fax or write to the us using the contact information details. The deadline for responding to this consultation is 30 April 2002.

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