The Council responds to consultations on a wide range of health and social services issues. The Board has an obligation to consult us where it proposes changes to services in the Southern area. We are also consulted by central government on a range of policy initiatives.

This section of the site allows the reader to view many of our responses over the past year. All documents are in PDF format. To read responses from further back, click the Responses Archive link.

Consultations in 2008

Feb 2009	A response to "Changing For The Better".	DOWNLOAD
Sep 2008	Guidance on Termination of Pregnancy in Northern Ireland: A response by the Health & Social Services Councils	DOWNLOAD
Aug 2008	Response to Health and Social Care (Reform) Bill	DOWNLOAD
July 2008	Proposals for Health and Social Care Reform Michael McGimpsey, Minister for Health, Social Services & Public Safety, has announced that he will: "establish a single, independent, regional body along the lines previously suggested for the proposed Patient and Client Council, with five committees operating within the same geographical areas as the five integrated Trusts."	DOWNLOAD
July 2008	Response to Equality Impact Assessment on Access to Mental Health Commission Services for People with Mental Health Needs	DOWNLOAD
May 2008	Proposals for Health and Social Care Reform - Consultation Report Questionnaire	DOWNLOAD

 

Consultations in 2007

Oct 2007	Committee Inquiry into the Prevention of Suicide and Self Harm	DOWNLOAD
July 2007	Consent: Patients and Doctors Making Decisions Together	DOWNLOAD
Apr 2007	The Bamford Review Of Mental Health And Learning Disability (Northern Ireland)	DOWNLOAD
Apr 2007	Termination of Pregnancy	DOWNLOAD
Apr 2007	Proposal for Draft Order	DOWNLOAD
Jan 2007	Improving Services For Major Trauma	DOWNLOAD
Jan 2007	Standards of Good Practice for Counselling Services in Northern Ireland	DOWNLOAD
Jan 2007	Measures to facilitate the provision of GP Out Of Hours services on a cross border basis	DOWNLOAD

Consultations in 2006

Nov 2006	Future of Pathology Services	DOWNLOAD
Nov 2006	Response to Regional Child Death Review Protocol for Northern Ireland	DOWNLOAD
May 2006	Towards A Patient Client Council - Responses to an e-Consultation carried out by HSSCs and CDHN on behalf of the Patient Client Council Project Team	DOWNLOAD
May 2006	Towards A Patient Client Council - Stakeholder Engagement within the Southern Area Undertaken by the Southern Health & Social Services Council	DOWNLOAD
May 2006	‘Defining the Patient & Client Council’ - Responses received by the Southern Health & Social Services Council at Community Stakeholder Engagement Meetings	DOWNLOAD

 

Consultations in 2005

Nov 2005	Making Services Safer In Sperrin Lakeland Trust	DOWNLOAD
Oct 2005	A Clear Path: A Strategic Vision for Health and Social Care Services for People with Memory Difficulties and Dementia 2006 – 2011	DOWNLOAD
Aug 2005	Implementation of Strategy for Persons with a Learning Disability	DOWNLOAD
Aug 2005	SHSSB Children's Autism Strategy 2005-2010	DOWNLOAD
Jun 2005	Response to the General Medical Council's Consultation	DOWNLOAD
Jun 2005	Making the Best use of the Pharmacy Workforce	DOWNLOAD
Mar 2005	Response to A Healthier Future – A Twenty Year Vision for Health and Wellbeing in Northern Ireland 2005 – 2025	DOWNLOAD
Feb 2005	Consultation on a draft strategy for Childred and Young People in Northern Ireland.	DOWNLOAD
Feb 2005	Northern Ireland Practive and Education Council for Nursing and Midwifery (NIPEC) consultation document	DOWNLOAD

Click here to go to Responses Archive.

"Help at Hand in Responding to Consultative Documents"

We have published a practical and user friendly guide to assist the hundreds of voluntary and community groups being asked to respond to a huge number of consultative documents. The guide entitled ‘Replying to Consultative Documents - A Guide to making your voice heard’ was approved by the Plain English Campaign and was widely circulated. It offers a step by step guide on how best to respond to consultative documents and deals with key questions such as, what are consultative documents, why respond and what should be included in a response.

This guide can be downloaded as an Acrobat (pdf) file - DOWNLOAD