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David Behan's letter to local authorities

Date added:	03/03/2012
Date modified:	03/03/2012
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David Behan, DH Director General for Social Care, Local Government and Care Partnerships, has written to local authority chief executives to clarify their statutory duty to commission effective and efficient local Healthwatch organisations.

Local HealthWatch - The policy explained

Date added:	03/03/2012
Date modified:	03/03/2012
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To help explain recent amendments to the Health and Social Care Bill about local Healthwatch, the Department of Health has published a document to clarify and restate the Government’s vision for local Healthwatch.

Local HealthWatch Briefing Paper V2

Date added:	02/02/2012
Date modified:	02/02/2012
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Many thanks to Lucy from Somerset LINk for providing us with this briefing paper on Local HealthWatch

Operating Principles for Health & Wellbeing Boards

Date added:	12/06/2011
Date modified:	12/06/2011
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New relationships must be developed between clinicians, organisations and local people to ensure that health and wellbeing boards are successful, a major report on the principles behind the new boards has concluded.

The report, produced by the Royal College of GPs, NHS Confederation, BMA, and other local government and social care bodies, calls for collective leadership, involvement of local people in decision-making, and an emphasis on tackling inequalities to be at the heart of the boards’ principles.

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