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To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will make a statement on the Government's response to the recommendations of the Transitional Advisory Board regarding the abolition of Community Health Councils and the introduction of patients' forums and independent complaints advisory services.

Asked by

Clive Efford (Labour)

Answering body

Department of Health

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Date

19 March 2003

Reference

102828; 401 c849W

House

House of Commons

Dept of Health

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what steps he plans to take to eradicate variation in the quality of services under the new arrangements for patient advocacy following the abolition of Community Health Councils; what arrangements he has made to ensure the continuity of patient advocacy and a...

Asked by

Clive Efford (Labour)

Answering body

Department of Health

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Tabled on

10 March 2003

For answer on

19 March 2003

Answered on

19 March 2003

Clive Efford: To ask the Secretary of State for Health (1) what steps he plans to take to eradicate variation in the quality of services under the new arrangements for patient advocacy following the abolition of Community Health Councils; [102831] (2) what arrangements he has made to ensure the continuity of patient advocacy and a smooth transition to the new arrangements after the abolition of Community Health Councils; [102833] (3) what steps his Department has taken to evaluate pilot independent complaints advisory services; and if he will make a statement. [102830] Mr. Lammy: It is our intention that Independent Complaints Advocacy Services (ICAS) will be available throughout the country from 1 September 2003. In the new system of patient and public involvement, ICAS is the responsibility of primary care trust (PCT) patients' forums. As an interim measure, whilst patients' forums are being established and are building their capacity and networks, we shall be working with the Commission for Patient and Public Involvement in Health (CPPIH) to put in place national coverage of ICAS through a contract with specialist complaints support providers. To support this system, we shall make arrangements to enable the CPPIH to manage the contract and to ensure services are provided to national standards. I recently announced an extension to the ICAS pilots to 31 July 2003. The full evaluation of the pilots will take place at the end of June, when we will have three quarterly returns from the pilots on the experience and activity. The evaluation will include all the pilots plus the support offered to them. The initial benchmarking exercise of a sample of the pilots, undertaken in January this year, has shown that ICAS provision has been well received and that pilots need to focus on developing good working relationships with the local national health service, in particular patient advice and liaison services, work with patients to find out their views of the ICAS service and ways of collecting data which can be used to improve NHS services. The CPPIH has a specific remit to set national standards for ICAS and to monitor compliance. The ICAS pilots currently work to draft national standards and are developing local operational protocols, which will inform future provision.

Date

19 March 2003

Reference

401 c849-50W; 102831;102833;102830

House

House of Commons

Dept of Health

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, who will be responsible for taking up the cases of those patients that remain unresolved by the Community Health Council on 1st September 2003.

Asked by

Clive Efford (Labour)

Answering body

Department of Health

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Date

19 March 2003

Reference

102835; 401 c851W

House

House of Commons

Dept of Health

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what consultations the Commission for Patient and Public Involvement in Health commissioners have undertaken on patients' forums and the independent complaints advisory services; and what discussions they have had with the Association of Community Health Councils in England and Wales.

Asked by

Clive Efford (Labour)

Answering body

Department of Health

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Date

19 March 2003

Reference

102834; 401 c850-1W

House

House of Commons

Dept of Health

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what steps he has taken to ensure that the expertise and knowledge of Community Health Council staff are not lost in the new arrangements for patients' forums and independent complaints advisory services.

Asked by

Clive Efford (Labour)

Answering body

Department of Health

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Date

19 March 2003

Reference

102832; 401 c850W

House

House of Commons

Dept of Health

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, whether TUPE will apply to Community Health Council staff in relation to patients' forums and independent complaints advisory services.

Asked by

Clive Efford (Labour)

Answering body

Department of Health

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Date

19 March 2003

Reference

102829; 401 c849W

House

House of Commons

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