Health

White Paper: Equity and excellence

The new Government wants to change the way health and social care services are run. It has written a White Paper which is its ideas of some big changes it thinks should happen to make the NHS better. The paper is called Equity and excellence: liberating the NHS.

Bradford LINk has written a series of summaries of some of the changes the government want to introduce.

Equity and Excellence Summary Part One

Equity and Excellence Summary Part Two

Equity and Excellence Summary Part Three

Consultation Papers: Have Your Say

Establishing Healthwatch: The future of Bradford LINk

Choice and Control

The government has also written a paper called Greater choice and control. This paper says that people should be able to choose where they go and who they see, to get the health care that they want. The government wants to know what kind of choices you would like to make about your health care.

Bradford LINk asked people for their views on the ideas in this paper. We have written a report about what people said. A copy of this will be sent to the government. You can read our report here

Establishing Healthwatch: Bradford LINk's response

Download a copy of Bradford LINk's response to the Establishing Healthwatch consultation here.

The Next Steps

After asking people what they think of their ideas to reform the NHS, the government has now updated its ideas.

Equity and Excellence: Liberating the NHS set out the government's vision for health services. After taking public opinion into account, it has now made some changes to these plans. These changes are in a new paper called NHS: Legislative framework and Next Steps.

Bradford LINk has written a summary of the changes the government wants to make.