CONSULTATIONS

Response to consultation on the framework for the registration of health and adult social care providers and consultation on draft regulations (30th March 2009)
This document serves two main purposes:

• it provides the Government's response to the consultation the Department of Health held during spring 2008: The future regulation of health and adult social care in England: a consultation on the framework for the regulation of health and adult social care, on the new registration framework to be introduced from 2010; and
• it launches a consultation on the wording of the draft Regulations on the scope of registration and the registration requirements that we are planning to set before Parliament this year under the Health and Social Care Act 2008.

Closing date for comments is 29th May 2009.
Consultation

The regulation of private hearing aid dispensers by the Health Professions Council: a paper for consultation (7th April 2009)
This draft order sets out a proposal to abolish the Hearing Aid Council and transfer its register of hearing aid dispensers to the Health Professions Council Closing date for comments is 7th July 2009.
Consultation

End of life treatment and care: good practice in decision-making. A draft for consultation (27th March 2009)
This consultation, launched by the General Medical Council (GMC), is intended for doctors but may also help patients and the public, and other health and social care staff, to understand what they can expect from doctors involved in caring for patients who are dying. Closing date for comments is 13th July 2009.
Consultation