One of the ways we influence the development of palliative and end of life care services is by responding to public consultations, which provide an opportunity for stakeholders to comment on draft proposals or guidance.

These are usually from the Department of Health, which covers health and social care in England, Welsh Assembly or Northern Ireland Assembly.

Sometimes other organisations, such as professional bodies or other charities, ask us to comment on work they're doing.

• Our response to the Coalition Government's proposed reforms to health, social care and public health

Recent responses

Here is a selection of responses our team have submitted recently:

• Response to The Commission on improving dignity in care here (March 2012)

• Evidence for the inquiry on dementia diagnosis rates being undertaken by the All Party Parliamentary Group on Dementia here. (Feb 2012)

• Response to NICE's draft guideline on the use of opioids in palliative care (Jan 2012)  here  (the consultation document can be viewed here)
  

• Response to NICE's draft Quality Standard for lung cancer (Nov 2011)  here  (the consultation document can be viewed here)

• Response to Department of Health Fundamental Review of Data Returns (Nov 2011) here (the consultation document can be viewed here)

• Response to the Ministry of Justice's consultation on a draft charter for the current coroner service they were developing (Sept 2011) here.
  

• Our response to NICE's draft Quality Standard for end of life care, can be found here (July 2011). For reference, the document to which we are responding can be found on NICE's website here.
  

Older responses

These can be found in the archive