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“We cannot simply take forward legislation without addressing the consultation feedback”

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BBC News NI has seen a letter from Mrs Bradley, which was sent to victims’ groups on Tuesday. It comes a day after the Executive Office published responses to a public consultation on HIA redress. In the letter, Mrs Bradley suggested putting HIA payments as an item in the Stormont talks process was the “quickest […]

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Lawyers submit papers with High Court over Kent stroke unit decision

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A legal fight to stop the closure of one of Kent’s six stroke units has been launched in the High Court today. Marion Keppel, from Ramsgate, is spearheading the challenge with lawyers filing a judicial review against the NHS decision to close the service at the Queen Elizabeth Queen Mother (QEQM) Hospital in Margate. The

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Council makes positive steps to be more transparent in public consultations

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TCI Commentary: What a good news story to appear online last week! Suffolk County Council are pledging greater transparency in their public consultations. Being open and transparent about issues, proposals and developments at each stage of the change management process, helps to manage public perception that your consultation is not just a tick-box exercise. Going

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Ofgem accuse Data Communications Company of running “too many consultations”

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TCI Commentary: Don’t consult enough and you can be challenged. Consult too often and you can give consultees consultation fatigue. Of course, it is good practice to involve people in changes you are making, but consultation is just one method of gaining valuable insight on an issue. Using this method for uncontroversial issues can lead

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Undoing Lansley – the work begins, and local autonomy is again to the fore.

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 TCI Commentary: If you are interested in health and social care, you will become accustomed to this kind of story. It will take 3 or 4 years to make significant changes to the 2012 re-organisation, and the search is now on for a system that assists rather than hinders the transformation of the NHS in

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Parents question a proposed legal challenge as it may ‘take funds away from pupils’

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Commentary: How typical is this story? Ardent campaigners keen to pursue a legal challenge whilst more cautious stakeholders question their enthusiasm. What we are not told is how strong a legal case the parents might have had. Note that the consultation has been extended. Is this because the consultation was vulnerable in some way? Or

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Gov delays delays consultation with pharmaceutical industry to ensure proposals are robust

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Despite promising a consultation in “early 2019”, the Department of Health and Social Care says it wants to ensure its proposals to limit pricing of generic medicines are robust before it puts them to industry. Sir Chris Wormald, permanent secretary at the Department of Health and Social Care, said it would consult on its powers

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Protesters stage ‘die-in’ over proposed London NHS cuts

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Bandaged and ‘wounded’ health campaigners staged a ‘die-in’ to protest against a proposed swathe of NHS cuts in Hammersmith and Fulham. Campaigners from Save Our Hospitals and Ealing Save Our NHS gathered at Lyric Square in Hammersmith to stage their protest. The gathering was also organised to celebrate the recent government decision to scrap the

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Is it wrong to have a preferred option?

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Commentary: Absolutely not! Having listened to feedback gathered during your engagement exercise and compiling a robust impact/equalities assessment, it is likely you will have formed a preferred option. Letting the public know what your preferred option is shows Transparency (Charter principle number 4).  You must, however, be careful not to ‘over-egg’ your preferred option with

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