Give your views on how best to change the NHS Constitution
To complete Department of Health and Social Care’s consultation survey, which seeks views on how best to change the NHS Constitution, please visit:
https://consultations.dhsc.
The consultation period will close at 11.59pm on 25 June 2024.
Further information about the consultation can be found here:
NHS Constitution: 10 year review – GOV.UK (www.gov.uk).
Kind regards
Engagement and Insights Team
NHS Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland Integrated Care Board
This consultation has arrived just as I am about to write to my MP about it. A key aspect of the NHS Constitution is action that can be taken when things go wrong and reach a stage where one still remains disatisfied with the responses.
NHS England states that under the NHS constitution,
“You have the right to make a claim for judicial review if you think you have been directly affected by an unlawful act or decision of an NHS body or local authority.”
How can this be a right when most people cannot afford the very considerable costs of doing so? Ergo it is not a right and as such is probably an unlawful statement. This needs to be either withdrawn as a right or Judical Review made available to the ordinary person in the street, albiet with safeguards to prevent a waste of public funds or time.
Perhaps the NHS Constitution should be enshrined in an Act Of Parliament that makes it unlawful not to deliver on it.
Hi John,
This is on the Evington Echo website, but I have combined your comment with others. See latest post.
Helen.