Consultation News

A Holyrood committee has asked the public to make their views known on city and region deals – like those in place for Aberdeen and Inverness. The agreements aim to grow regional economies, boost employment figures and more. Glasgow is the third city to have a deal in place with Edinburgh and Stirling in the

Vulnerable patients and their GPs have been left stunned after discovering a vital mental health support service is being uprooted with no consultation. But NHS bosses said their hands were tied because the centre’s landlord was hiking the rent by £100,000 a year. In two weeks, the North Hackney Recovery team is leaving Anita House

Hammersmith and Fulham leader Stephen Cowan said the rebuke from NHS and CCG bosses was a bid to ‘shut down the Charing Cross Hospital conversation’ The formal complaint made by NHS bosses against Hammersmith and Fulham Council is “the latest in a long line of attempts to hide the truth about their Charing Cross Hospital

The pressure is on.  An urgent decision is needed to prevent foreseen losses.  This is a common scenario for which many Consultors can relate.  Yet it is traditional to ensure that Consultees are given lots of time to consider new proposals so that they have a reasonable opportunity to express their views. While rushing consultation

The current Victims and Survivors (NI) Order makes no distinction between people who were killed or injured while carrying out acts of terrorism and those they targeted. The legislation is controversially shaping who is entitled to special state support. The leader of the current UUP political talks team, Tom Elliott, says he has asked Secretary

The NHS is riddled with jargon and gobbledygook and may even be using impenetrable language on purpose to hide plans from the public, the Plain English Campaign has warned. “Sustainability and transformation plans” (STPs) that divide England into 44 “footprints” and make promises such as “system-wide quality improvements” as a consequence of “shared understanding of