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Age equality in health and social care
— a consultation on preparing the NHS and social care in England for the age requirements in the Equality Bill that affect the provision of services and exercise of public functions | | Corporate Author | Department of Health - DH |
| Publisher | Department of Health, London, 23 November 2009 |
| Pages | 40 pp (Gateway ref: 12985) |
| Source | Age Equality Team, Room 602, Department of Health, 79 Whitehall, London SW1A 2NS. Download from website: http://www.dh.gov.uk/en/Consultations/Liveconsulta... |
| Keywords | Ageism ; Health services ; Services ; Social policy ; Government publications. |
| Annotation | The Equality Bill currently before Parliament streamlines and strengthens existing legislation on discrimination. The Bill creates a new equality duty on public bodies and others carrying out public functions, and bans age discrimination in the provision of services and exercise of public functions. In April 2009, the then Secretary of State for Health asked Sir Ian Carruthers and Jan Ormondroyd to consider what the new measures on age would mean for health and social care. The review's report 'Achieving age equality in health and social care' was published on 22 October 2009. It makes a number of recommendations, some of which deal with the form that secondary legislation under the Bill should take. Most of the recommendations focus on non-legislative action that the Department of Health (DH), and the National Health Service (NHS) and social care more generally, should take to prepare for the introduction of the new public sector equality duty and of the ban on age discrimination. This consultation seeks comments (by 15 February 2010 and applies only to England) on the review's non-legislative recommendations, to feed into DH's response to the review, particularly how the DH can support health and social care to meet the requirements of the Bill. In addition to this consultation paper, DH is publishing (on the same web page as this consultation) a partial impact assessment and equality impact assessment which consider the review's recommendations. DH's response to the review is expected to be published in spring 2010. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-100331001 E |
| Classmark | B:TOB: L: I: TM2: 6OA |
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