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The General Medical Council's consultation 'Good Medical Practice' is now online. It asks for views about how doctors can take a lead role in making sure a patient's safety, comfort and dignity are always maintained throughout their care. The closing date is 10th February 2012. Click here to take place in the consultation online.

PLYMOUTH COMMUNITY HEALTHCARE

What should the priorities be for primary care next year? These are some suggestions - let us know if you agree with these or anything else you think they should focus on:

Improve the way they involve patients and carers and your experiences of services
Tell people about their services and provide information in ways that people can understand
Improve the way that health services and social care services work together so that people can move easily from one service to another

NHS Reforms:

Pause, Listen, Reflect, Improve Listening exercise

The government announced its intention to look again at the legislation going through parliament that will affect the ways that health and social care services are provided. To see Plymouth LINk's response, click here.

To see the Government response to the NHS Future Forum report, click here.

See Plymouth LINk's responses to other NHS and Adult Social Care reform consultations:

Download Plymouth LINk's response to Healthy Lives, Healthy People: Outcome Framework by clicking here (closing date 31st March 2011).
Download Plymouth LINk's response to Healthy Lives, Healthy People: funding and commissioning routes by clicking here (closing date 31st March 2011).
Download Plymouth LINk's response to Liberating the NHS; developing the healthcare workforce by clicking here (closing date 31st March 2011).
Download Plymouth LINk's response to the White Paper consultation Healthy Lives, Healthy People: Our Strategy for Public Health in England by clicking here (closing date 31st March 2011).
Download Plymouth LINk's response to An Information Revolution: a consultation on proposals ) by clicking here (closed 14 January 2011).
Download Plymouth LINk's response to Liberating the NHS: Greater choice and control. A consultation on proposals by clicking here (closed 14 January 2011).
Download Plymouth LINk's response to Transparency in Outcomes: A Framework for Adult Social Care by clicking here (closed 9 February 2011).

Quality Accounts

Healthcare providers publishing Quality Accounts (an annual report to the public from providers of NHS healthcare services about the quality of their services) in June 2011 have a legal duty to send their Quality Account to the LINk in the local authority area in which the provider has its registered office, inviting comments on the report from the LINk prior to publication. This gives LINks the opportunity to review the information contained in the report and provide a statement on their view of what is reported.
For more details of how this will work, click here.
All LINks across the country have been asked to comment on Quality Accounts. Plymouth LINk's response can be found by clicking here.

Other 'live' consultations can be found on the Department of Health website, with options for other formats and languages. Visit their website:

www.dh.gov.uk/en/Consultations/Liveconsultations/index.htm

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