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Age equality in health and social care
— a report on the consultation | | Corporate Author | Department of Health - DH |
| Publisher | Department of Health - DH (electronic format only), London, 9 March 2010 |
| Pages | 75 pp (Gateway ref: 13848) |
| Source | Policy Support Unit, Department of Health, 79 Whitehall, London SW1A 2NS. http://www.dh.gov.uk/en/Consultations/Responsestoc... |
| Keywords | Ageism ; Health services ; Services ; Social policy ; Government publications. |
| Annotation | 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 in the Equality Bill would mean for health and social care. Their report, 'Achieving age equality in health and social care' (DH, October 2009) 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 report considers responses to the resulting consultation, 'Age equality in health and social care' (DH, November 2009) which sought comments 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 in England to meet the requirements of the Equality Bill (which applies throughout Britain). Among proposal subjects commented on were: timing of the age discrimination ban; quality-adjusted life years (QALYs); reviewing age criteria in national policies; joint working; local authority assessment procedures; mental health; prevention programmes; training; and complaints. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-100401201 E |
| Classmark | B:TOB: L: I: TM2: 6OA |
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