Health and Social Care Bill
LATEST 14/02: Click here to view the call for an EGM.
13/02: Click here to view an update from the President on College views about the Bill sent to all Fellows, members and Trainees.
07/02: Click here to view the RCOG's briefing to Peers for Report Stage.
01/02: Click here to view the Government's amendments to the Health and Social Care Bill. The briefing notes are here.
27/01: Click here to view the letter from the President sent to all Fellows, Members and Trainees on the College's update on the Bill.
25/01: The RCOG has published its response to the second Future Forum report. To view click here.
10/01/2012: The Future Forum have published their final recommendations on the second phase of their work. These can be found here. The Government has also published its response, please click here to view.
17/11/2011: Click here to view the Future Forum's letter to the Secretary of State before the publication of their report on the second phase.
31/10: Click here to view the RCOG's submission to the second phase of the Future Forum.
16/09: Click here to view the RCOG's briefing to Peers for the second reading in the House of Lords.
07/09: Click here to view the RCOG Statement on the Report stage. Click here to view the amendments on abortion.
02/09: Click here to view the RCOG's briefing note on the proposed abortion amendments to the Health and Social Care Bill.
Information about the passage of the Bill in Parliament can be found here.
NHS Listening Exercise
UPDATE 18/08: The Department of Health has announced that the NHS Future Forum will continue its work. More information about the next phase of its work can be found here.
02/08: Click here to view the RCOG's response to the Government's response to the Future Forum report.
20/06: The Department of Health published its full response to the NHS Future Forum report, to view, click here.
14/06: Click here for the Coalition Government's response to the report. The RCOG's response can be found here.
13/06: Click here to view the NHS Future Forum report. The RCOG's response can be found here.
Click here to view the RCOG's statement on the PM speech on his five NHS guarantees.
Click here to view the RCOG's statement in response to the PM's speech about the NHS Listening Exercise.
The RCOG has produced a paper on postgraduate education and training to the Academy of Medical Royal Colleges, as part of the Listening Exercise. To view this document, click here.
Visit the NHS Future Forum webpage for the latest news.
The RCOG has produced briefing documents on the themes identified by NHS Future Forum:
NHS White Paper and consultations
The RCOG made the following submissions:
- Healthy Lives, Healthy People: transparency in outcomes, proposals for a public health outcomes framework
- Healthy lives, healthy people: consultation on the funding and commissioning routes for public health
- Developing the healthcare workforce
- Greater choice and control. A consultation on proposals
- An Information Revolution: a consultation on proposals
- Transparency in Outcomes: A framework for the NHS
- Local democratic legitimacy in health
- Commissioning for patients
- Regulating healthcare providers
- Equity and Excellence – Liberating the NHS
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| Health Bill - email to members - feb 12 - FINAL.pdf | 157.86 KB |
| HSC Bill - EGM notice.pdf | 141.06 KB |
