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Impact assessments for the Health and Social Care Bill

The Health and Social Care Bill was announced as part of the Government’s draft Third Session Legislative Programme on 11 July 2007. As a portmanteau Bill, the Bill covers a wide range of areas.

To accompany the Bill, the Department of Health has published impact assessments for those areas of the Bill which met the cost threshold for requiring an impact assessment. Impact assessments are tools to examine the potential effects, including costings, of the measures proposed by Government departments.

The cover note for the impact assessments explains which parts of the Bill required an impact assessment and why. It also sets out why the Department considers that those measures not requiring an impact assessment will not have an adverse impact on equality.

Revised and updated 30 April 2008

• Download All Impact Assessments for the Health and Social Care Bill in a single document (PDF, 5339K)
• Download overarching cover note (PDF, 628K)
• Download impact assessment: Care Quality Commission (PDF, 579K)
• Download impact assessment: professional regulation reforms (PDF, 855K)
• Download impact assessment: public health protection measures (PDF, 138K)
• Download impact assessment: NHS indemnity (PDF, 135K)
• Download impact assessment: extension of direct payments (PDF, 71K)
• Download impact assessment: financial assistance to social enterprises (PDF, 111K)
• Download impact assessment: creation of the National Information Governance Board (PDF, 159K)
• Download Impact Assessment: abolition of the Hearing Aid Council and the transfer of responsibilities to the Health Professions Council (PDF, 3020K)