Consultation responses
We contribute information from our research and projects to respond to a range of policy consultations.
The Health Foundation’s response to the General Medical Council’s consultation on Good Medical Practice
The General Medical Council (GMC) advises doctors on the standards expected of them by the profession, their patients and the general public. 'Good Medical Practice' is the current core guidance for doctors and sets out what is expected of all doc...
The Health Foundation’s submission to the Health Select Committee’s inquiry into public expenditure
The Health Select Committee has published the report of its inquiry into public expenditure in the NHS. In undertaking the inquiry, the committee wanted to examine how well the health and social care systems are coping with more stringent financia...
The Health Foundation's responses to the NHS Future Forum
The Government asked the NHS Future Forum to start a new phase of conversations with patients, service users and professionals following its listening exercise in April/May 2011 on the proposals to modernise the NHS. Download the Health Foundation's ...
The Health Foundation / King's Fund Hospital Pathways programme submission to the Partnership on Dignity in Care
The Hospital Pathways programme aims to demonstrate how the health service can put patients at the centre of care. This joint submission of evidence focuses upon the learning that is relevant to the Commission from the Hospital Pathways programme and...
The Health Foundation's response to the NHS Chief Executive Innovation Review
In the Health Foundation’s experience, NHS teams experience innovation in a subjective rather than objective sense.
The Health Foundation's response to the NICE consultation on patient experience in generic terms
The Health Foundation warmly welcomes the decision to create this guideline. However, our preference would be that guidance on how to deliver care so that it reliably delivers a good patient experience is common to every piece of guidance issued by N...
The Health Foundation submission of evidence to The Public Bill Committee on the Health & Social Care (Re-committed) Bill
In our evidence to the Public Bill Committee on the Health and Social Care (re-committed) Bill we focused upon changes that need to be made to the Bill to put patients centre stage and create an NHS in which the principle of 'No decision about me wit...
The Health Foundation's response to the NHS listening exercise - 'No decision about me without me: making it happen'
In our response to the NHS listening exercise we focused upon choice as a mechanism for placing patients centre stage and creating an NHS with the principle of 'No decision about me without me' at its heart.
The Health Foundation response to Liberating the NHS: Developing the Healthcare Workforce
The Health Foundation believes that the medical workforce in particular will need to rise to the challenge if the aims of the health reforms are to be achieved.
The Health Foundation's response to Liberating the NHS: Greater Choice and Control
We believe that there are a number of steps that can help to create a system and culture that enables patients to have control and make effective choices: communicating and engaging at national level, aligning incentives and systems, leveraging ...
