Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he plans to include a public consultation in his Department's review of the Decision Support Tool for NHS Continuing Health Care, published in March 2018.
The updated National Framework for NHS Continuing Healthcare and NHS-funded Nursing Care and associated assessment tools, including the NHS Continuing Healthcare Decision Support Tool, was published on 1 March 2018, and will be implemented on 1 October 2018.
This update to the National Framework followed an extensive period of external engagement with stakeholders, across the National Health Service, local authorities, and patient representative groups.