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18.08.08 | Colin Adamson

August Newsletter - Health without frontiers and devolved responsibilities Clients, Disability, NHS, Public Involvement, Surveys | (0)
A mixed range of opinions posted in July and early August. I offered the NHS a new rock anthem 'Turn Me Loose and Set Me Free' to celebrate as the NHS moves from targets to devolved responsibilities under the new Constitution. David Nicholson the NHS Chief Executive told patient and user representatives to 'cause more trouble'. Andrew Craig delved into the EU directive on health without frontiers with a reminiscence about handling a complaint for reimbursing a patient who saved her hearing by going off to France for an operation which the NHS kept promising but never delivered. He concluded that health travel would broaden the minds of British patients and vice versa. And acute trusts here looking to keep up their balance sheets would do well to consider where the waiting lists were longest in member states as health travel will work both ways. Fleishman-Hillards’ blog “Public Affairs 2.0” ...
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22.04.08 | Colin Adamson

Section 242 and the Disability Equality Duty - Making a Happy Marriage Disability, NHS, Public Involvement | (0)
We do not get many comments on the blog so we were delighted when Michelle Valentine, the author of the piece that follows, was sufficiently interested by an entry that Andrew Craig wrote in March on complying with Section 242 to note in our comment box "This new duty could be quite a powerful lever for disabled people, and it will be interesting to see how this duty will be implemented alongside the duties imposed by the DDA 2005 to involve disabled people. I would welcome a discussion about this." This was rather unwise of Michelle because of course we immediately invited her to kick off such a discussion. Her article follows. Michelle has her own consultancy Disability Forward Ltd and we know her from her work with the BSI Consumer and Public Interest Network. You can reach her at michelle@disabilityfwd.co.uk Section 242 is shorthand for the general legal duty on the ...
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09.03.08 | Andrew Craig

Complying with the Section 242 Duty to Consult and Involve Users of Health Services Disability, NHS, Public Involvement | (2)
From his perspective as a PEC member in London's PCT-land, Andrew Craig offers a personal view about how to start complying with the new legal duty in Section 242 and make it work to the advantage of good governance in the NHS. What is "Section 242"? The NHS loves shorthand and "Section 242" will soon be part of it: shorthand in fact for the general legal duty on the NHS to consult and involve service users in everything to do with planning, provision and delivery of services. The duty specifically applies where there are changes proposed in the manner in which services are delivered or in the range of services made available. A briefing about Section 242 is available from the Department of Health (December 2007: Gateway Ref 9138) Statutory guidance - i.e. compulsory - about the 242 duty and the related sections of the Local Government and Public Involvement in Health ...
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