NHS White Paper consultation - voluntary sector thinkpieces

Voluntary sector leaders have contributed their thoughts on key aspects of the NHS White Paper. These comments cover cross-sector health issues - from GP commissioning, to the challenges of access for excluded communities, and personalisation - and are here to stimulate your own responses to the consultation on NHS reform.

We want to hear from you too - there's a comment box for you all - as well as signposting you on to opportunities to respond to the Department of Health's consultation on the White Paper, 'Equity and Excellence: liberating the NHS'.

In full, the topics cover:

• New Migrants and Excluded Communities (Northern Refugee Centre)
• Infrastructure and Social Value Commissioning (Voluntary Sector North West)
• Equity for the Deaf (RNID)
• Access to Drug and Alcohol Services (addaction)
• Mental Health (Mind)
• Personalising Health (National Care Forum)
• Commissioning and Structural Change (Stephen Strutt)

For any further questions about the White Paper, or to contact our authors, email fiona.sheil@ncvo-vol.org.uk.