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Consultation summary
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Consultation on Direct Payments Regulations (HTML format)
Departments:
- Department of Health
Document type:
Consultation paper
Date of publication:
20 August 2008
Deadline date:
11 November 2008
Summary:
Direct payments are crucial to achieving the Government's aim to increase independence, choice and control for service users and their carers through allowing them the opportunity to arrange their own personalised care. The Health and Social Care Act 2008 extends the availability of direct payments to those people who lack the capacity to consent to their receipt. In addition, the government is also reviewing the current exclusions to receiving direct payments for those people who are subject to various provisions of mental health legislation in light of the modernisation of mental health law brought about by the Mental Health Act 2007. The Government is now consulting on regulations relating to these two changes.Subjects:
- Care;
- General health;
- NHS;
- Social issues
Regions:
- National
