Published 15 February 2024
Last updated 22 November 2024 — See all updates
This consultation has concluded
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Information standards for health
and adult social care in England: consultation
response
Detail of outcome
This is the Department of Health and Social Care's (DHSC)
response to the consultation about proposals for regulations to
make provision about the procedure to be followed for the
preparation and publication of information standards.
There were 132 responses to the consultation. We are grateful to
all respondents for taking the time to consider this
consultation. We have taken on board the feedback and used the
analysis of responses to inform the drafting of the proposed
regulations (the regulations). Responses will also inform the
contents of any supporting guidance, which may accompany the
regulations.
The regulations are subject to the affirmative Parliamentary
procedure and we hope to lay regulations before Parliament in
spring 2025.
Original consultation Summary
We are seeking your view on proposals for the procedure to be set
out in regulations in connection with preparing and publishing
information standards for health and adult social care in
England.
This consultation ran from
10am on 15 February 2024 to 11:59pm on 28 March
2024
Consultation description
Information standards in relation to the health and adult social
care sector are standards relating to the processing of
information, prepared and published under section 250 of the
Health and Social Care Act (HSCA) 2012 as amended by the
Health and Care Act (HCA) 2022, and as proposed to be
amended by the Data Protection and Digital Information
(DPDI) Bill,
which is currently before Parliament.
Currently, the Secretary of State or NHS England may prepare and
publish information standards, which the Secretary of State, NHS
England and publicly funded health and adult social care
organisations in England must have regard to.
Changes made by the HCA 2022, once commenced, will:
- make information standards binding
- extend information standards so that they may also apply to
private health and adult social care providers
The changes also require regulations to make provision about the
procedure to be followed in connection with the preparation and
publication of information standards.
The Secretary of State is required, before laying a draft of the
regulations before Parliament, to consult such persons as the
Secretary of State considers appropriate.
The Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) is the
department responsible for developing and delivering the
regulations. DHSC is required to
undertake a public consultation before laying a draft of the
regulations before Parliament.
Documents
Information standards for health
and adult social care in England
