The Health and Social Care Bill

Below, you will find our official responses to the Health and Social Care Bill.

• The Health and Social Care Bill: report stage House of Lords
• Briefing on the Health and Social Care Bill: second reading in the House of Lords
• Briefing on the Health and Social Care Bill: report and third reading
• Briefing on the Health and Social Care Bill: new amendments
• Where next for the NHS reforms? The case for integrated care
• Briefing on the Health and Social Care Bill

Our consultation responses and evidence submissions

We also contributed to a number of consultations during this period:

• Submission to the Co-operation and Competition Panel
• Public Bill Committee Submission
• Evidence for the House of Commons Health Committee's Inquiry into Commissioning
• Chris Ham gave evidence to the Public Health and Social Care Bill Committee

As part of the listening exercise, Steve Field and the NHS Future Forum launched their recommendations for the Health and Social Care Bill at The King's Fund in June 2011. You can watch the launch event and hear our initial response and those of other organisations.

See also

• NHS Future Forum recommendations
• Reactions to the NHS Future Forum recommendations

You can read our related press releases on these developments:

• Our response to the Future Forum recommendations
• Our response to the governments reaction to the Future Forum recommendations
• The King's Fund responds to the Prime Minister's speech on the NHS
• Our response to the announcement of a two-month listening exercise on the government's health reforms

Will the reforms lead to privatisation of the health system? Are there too many managers in the NHS? We picked up – and debunked – some of the myths that have been generated in the debate so far.

• Health and Social Care Bill mythbusters