Association of Community Health Councils for England and Wales
  • ACHCEW
    • THE GOLDEN AGE OF PPI IN THE NHS
    • ABOUT ACHCEW
    • History of the NHS >
      • Historical Publications
      • NHS Consultants' Association
      • The Peckham Experiment
    • How ACHCEW Worked
    • Who's Who >
      • Toby Harris
      • A celebration - Michael English
      • In Memory of Mike Gerrard >
        • A Stifled Voice - Book Launch
      • In Memory of Murray Benham
      • In Memory of Bill Marks
      • In Memory of Tony Smythe
    • ACHCEW - Bless you!
    • The Legal Position >
      • THE ORIGIN
      • THE OBJECTIVES
      • Constitution - Standing Orders
      • Communications
      • Legal Advice and Procedures
      • Parliament - Acts-Bills-Briefings >
        • ACHCEW Briefing Papers re. NHS Community Care Bill ...
        • CHCs (Access to Information) Act 1988
      • Statutory Instruments - Regulations
    • ACHCEW Training Pack
    • Official Papers >
      • Abolition of CHCs and ACHCEW - 2003
      • Creation of CPPIH
      • DH + Social Security - Appendices
      • Forum Support Organisations + Patients' Forums
      • Guidance - Governance Documents
      • Termination Documents
      • Transition from CHCs to Patients' Forums >
        • CVS
        • Private Eye
      • The National Plan
    • The Commission - ACHCEW >
      • Correspondence - Interim Report
      • Publication
    • CASUALTY WATCH - History >
      • Casualty Watch - STEERING GROUP
      • Casualty Watch - PAPERS
      • Casualty Watch - MONTHLY RESULT
      • Casualty Watch - CHC REPORTS
      • Press Cuttings
  • COMMITTEES
    • Annual Reports
    • AGM / Conferences - Correspondence, Papers, Minutes
    • Officers' Meetings
    • Standing Committee >
      • Standing Committee Members
      • Standing Committee News
    • Transition Advisory Board - TAB
    • FINAL Meeting - 08 July 2003
  • CHCs
    • Introduction to CHCs
    • CHC Regulations
    • How CHCs Worked
    • Code of Conduct for CHC Members
    • Code of Practice on Consultation
    • Public Activities Material
    • CHCs in Action - (Publication)
    • The Politics of Consumer Representation - A Study of CHCs
    • The Legal History of CHCs
    • Legal - re. Closures
    • Directory of CHCs + LINks >
      • Brighton and District CHC
      • Brent CHC
      • Bristol CHC
      • Central + South Birmingham CHC
      • City and Hackney CHC
      • Croydon CHC
      • Greater London Association of CHCs - GLACHC
      • Haringey CHC
      • Islington CHC
      • Mid-Staffs CHC
      • SW Hertfordshire CHC
      • Southwark CHC
      • Wakefield CHC
    • Training and Skills for Members >
      • Skills for New CHC Members
      • Understanding the NHS and the Role of the CHC
      • Developing Skills as a CHC Member
      • Links to CHCs and Charities Database
      • Skills for CHC Chairs
      • Other Training Documents
      • PPI Short Courses >
        • Introduction and Surveys
        • Core 1 - User Involvement in Health and Social Care
        • Core 2 - What does User Involvement Mean?
        • Core 3 - Feeling Empowered in User Involvement
        • Theme 1 - Involvement in Service Planning and Improvement
        • Theme 2 - Involvement in Research and Activity
        • General Units
        • Link Person Handbook
  • Papers
    • IN-HOUSE Staff Publications - Introduction >
      • IN-HOUSE Publications - Listing
    • CHC Listings
    • CHC News >
      • CHC News - 1-94 (1975-1984)
      • CHC News - 1-112 (1986-1996)
      • CHC News - 1-37 (1996-2000)
    • CHC Public Activities Materials
    • NHS Dispute - Complaint
    • Presentations >
      • Presentations - PowerPoint
      • Presentations - Video
    • Foundation Trust Hospitals
    • GMC
    • Healthwatch England
    • Health Scrutiny
    • House of Commons Health Committee
    • ICAS
    • King's Fund
    • Normanton Hospital Inquiry
    • PALS
    • Local Involvement Networks - LINKs
    • PPI + LINks >
      • PPI Academic
      • PPI in the NHS >
        • The Effective PPI Forum - Guide
      • Patient Empowerment >
        • Power to the People in South East Thames
      • Public Representation of Health Bodies
      • Women's Health Publications >
        • Pennell Report on Women's Health (Publication)
        • Women's Health - Engaging Women
      • Enter and View
      • LINks Foundation Trusts
      • Kingston Hospital + Kingston PCT LINk
      • Public Involvement in the Private Finance Initiative
      • Response to the Health Committee Report
      • Private Hospitals
  • PUBLICATIONS
    • Publications - A
    • Publications - B
    • Publications - C
    • Publications - D-E-F-G
    • Publications - H-I-K-L-M
    • Publications - N-O-P-Q
    • Publications - R-S-T
    • Publications - U-V-W-Y
  • PRESS
    • ACHCEW's Press Releases
    • A&E + CASUALTYWATCH Press Cuttings
  • Cartoons
  • Gallery
    • Mass Lobby of Parliament
    • PHOTOS - Cafe Royal 08July2003
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Publications  -  R - S - T
Click on the title to download the publication.  Many of these documents may take some time to download.
Rationing Health Care - Should CHCs Help?  - April 1993   ...   6 pages

Reactions  -  A selection of responses to the proposed abolition of the Community Health Councils  - 2 pages

Real Accountability - Demonstrating responsiveness and accountability  -  Guidance on the NHS duty to report on consultation
Public & Patient Experience & Engagement, NHS - November 2009   ...   33 pages

Reconciliation of the Funding and Other Details in Lord Hunter's Reply to the House of Lords Debate 
​Donald Roy - February 2003  -  1 page

Recording and Video Taping Patients' Consultations  -   June 1998   ...   12 pages

Reference Manual for Public Involvement  -  By: Jacqui Barker  .  Maxine Bullen  .  Jenny de Ville   ...   81 pages

Reflecting the Public Interest - Focused, Professional:  A Strategy for CHCs to plan their own future  ...  34 pages

Reforming Emergency Care 2001-2002 and 2002-2003 - Streaming in Accident and Emergency Departments  7 pages

Report of the Review Working Party on CHCs  - South Western Regional Health Authority - May 1978  ... 10 pages

Representing the Consumer   - October 1989  ...   21 pages

Research Strategies for Consumer Empowerment of People with Severe Mental Illness
By:  Charles A. Rapp - Wes Shera and Walter Kishardt  -  1993  ...   8 pages

Response to the Government's White Paper - 'The Health of the Nation'  - October 1992   ...   5 pages

Review of LINk Southwark - 2011 - 46 pages

RMI - Resource Management Initiatives - or - Rushed, Mismanaged and Inept  - August 1990   ...   22 pages

Rural Dispensing  -  June 1996   ...   12 pages

Review of A&E Services in Calderdale - Calderdale CHC  -  October - November 2000  ...  13 pages
Self Reviews in CHCs  -  July 1992   ...   11 pages

Staffing and Resources for CHCs  - March 1995   ...   28 pages

Study of Provision of Intensive Care in England - 1993  -   January 1995   ...   67 pages

Survey of CHCs Relations with NHS Authorities - 1990   -     October 1991   ...   41 pages

Survey of Expert Opinion on Health Policy  - 1984 ... 10 pages

Survey of Regional Associations of CHCs - Undated  -  7 pages

Table of Charities  ...   19 pages

Tax on Illness  - Antonia Ford, Philip Macleish and Marion Chester - February 2002  ...  21 pages

Ten questions to ask if  you are scrutinising arrangements to support effective Local Involvement Networks  -  The Centre for Public Scrutiny - 11 pages

Ten questions to ask if you are scrutinising the effectiveness of your local hospital 
​The Centre for Public Scrutiny - 16 pages

The Abolition of CHCs - Consultation or Imposition?  -    November 2000 - 5 pages

The Abolition of CHCs - Human Resources Framework - DH -  31 January 2003  ...   18 pages

The Accountability of Fundholding  -  November 1995   ...   28 pages

The Case for 'Patients' Councils'  - April 2002  ...  3 pages

The Consumers' View - Review of CHC Surveys on Outpatients Departments  - June 1986  ...   10 pages

The Consumer Hits Back - re. the appointment of Tony Smythe as the new Secretary of ACHCEW
- taken from the Nursing Times, City Limits and the Health and Social Care Journal 
    - 1983

The Costs of the New system of PPI in the NHS - A Review of the Evidence   - Donald Roy - May 2003 ...  5 pages

The Data Protection Act 1998  - March 1999   ...    8 pages 

The Developing Role of Community Health Councils  -   July 1992   ...   21 pages

The Financial Health of the NHS  - March 1996   ...   15 pages

'The focus is on patients' clinical needs and distress'  -   Malcolm Alexander, Director, ACHCEW -  2003 

The Future Establishing Arrangements for CHCs  - June 1995   ...   16 pages

The Future of NHS Complaints  -  38 pages

The Future Role of CHCs  -  Extracts from Hansard  - June 1990   ...   9 pages

The Health of the Nation  -    December 1991  ...   15 pages

The Impact of CHCs on NHS Administrators     -  By: Erica Bates   .   35 pages

The Impact of General Management on the NHS  - March 1988   ...   16 pages

The Internal Market and NHS Finances  -  September 1993   -   9 pages

The NHS Plan:  Stifling the patients' voice?  - November 2000

The National Health Service - King's Fund Centre - January 1974

The New NHS Complaints Procedure  - 1996  ...   6 pages

The New NHS Complaints Procedure - Guidance Notes  - 1996 ... 1 page

The NHS Today and Tomorrow - and The Future of CHCs  - 1981  ... 2 pages

The Patient Will See You Now:  Rebalancing relationships between people who use services and those who provide them.   Health Service Journal  -  24 June 2010 - 13 pages

The Patients' Agenda - What the Patient's Charter Leaves Out  - November 1996  -  14 pages

The Patients' Charter  - NEWS BRIEFING - November 1984  ...   4 pages

The Patient's Charter - Article for Agenda - 1995  - 25 pages

The Patients' Charter - Guidelines for Good Practice - 1986

The Patient's Charter - Past and Future  ... Christine Farrell, Ros Leveson and Dawn Snape  ... 38 pages
-   Appendix 1:  Main Themes from the Literature Review - 12 pages
-   Appendix 2:  Interviews with Voluntary and Patients' Organisations and Representatives of Vulnerable
​     Groups
 - 10 pages
-   Appendix 3:  The Written Evidence - 18 pages
-   Appendix 4:  Focus Groups with Patients, Managers and Clinicians - 50 pages
-   Appendix 5:  Research Methods - 10 pages

The Patients' Charter - The Patients' Perspective  -  NEWS BRIEFING - September 1994   ...   24 pages

The Peckham Experiment  -  By: Kenneth Barlow - 1985  ...  8 pages

The Peckham Health Centre, "PEP" and the Concept of General Practice during the 1930s and 1940s 
​By: Jane Lewis and Barbara Brookes   ...   9 pages

The Problem with Referrals  -    July 1999   ...   25 pages

The Provision of Core Services in the NHS   -   18 pages

The Public and the NHS -  By: Christine Hogg - 1996  ...  46 pages

The Registration of Private Homes and Nursing Homes  -    May 1986  ...   8 pages 

The Role and Duties of Community Health Councils - By: Marion Chester - October 1997

The State of Non Conventional Medicine  - 40 pages

The Start Up of LINks (Local Involvement Networks)   - 2008 ... 41 pages

To CHCs who argue against an association, I say 'Watch and see what we do' 
​
Mike Gerrard, ACHCEW - 22 September 1978

Tools for Participation:  A briefing from the Centre for Participation

Towards a Statement of Objectives for CHCs and ACHCEW  - 14 pages 

Trumpet Voluntary - An Informal History of Central and South Birmingham CHCs - 1974 - 2003  
​David Spilsbury - June 2003

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  • ACHCEW
    • THE GOLDEN AGE OF PPI IN THE NHS
    • ABOUT ACHCEW
    • History of the NHS >
      • Historical Publications
      • NHS Consultants' Association
      • The Peckham Experiment
    • How ACHCEW Worked
    • Who's Who >
      • Toby Harris
      • A celebration - Michael English
      • In Memory of Mike Gerrard >
        • A Stifled Voice - Book Launch
      • In Memory of Murray Benham
      • In Memory of Bill Marks
      • In Memory of Tony Smythe
    • ACHCEW - Bless you!
    • The Legal Position >
      • THE ORIGIN
      • THE OBJECTIVES
      • Constitution - Standing Orders
      • Communications
      • Legal Advice and Procedures
      • Parliament - Acts-Bills-Briefings >
        • ACHCEW Briefing Papers re. NHS Community Care Bill ...
        • CHCs (Access to Information) Act 1988
      • Statutory Instruments - Regulations
    • ACHCEW Training Pack
    • Official Papers >
      • Abolition of CHCs and ACHCEW - 2003
      • Creation of CPPIH
      • DH + Social Security - Appendices
      • Forum Support Organisations + Patients' Forums
      • Guidance - Governance Documents
      • Termination Documents
      • Transition from CHCs to Patients' Forums >
        • CVS
        • Private Eye
      • The National Plan
    • The Commission - ACHCEW >
      • Correspondence - Interim Report
      • Publication
    • CASUALTY WATCH - History >
      • Casualty Watch - STEERING GROUP
      • Casualty Watch - PAPERS
      • Casualty Watch - MONTHLY RESULT
      • Casualty Watch - CHC REPORTS
      • Press Cuttings
  • COMMITTEES
    • Annual Reports
    • AGM / Conferences - Correspondence, Papers, Minutes
    • Officers' Meetings
    • Standing Committee >
      • Standing Committee Members
      • Standing Committee News
    • Transition Advisory Board - TAB
    • FINAL Meeting - 08 July 2003
  • CHCs
    • Introduction to CHCs
    • CHC Regulations
    • How CHCs Worked
    • Code of Conduct for CHC Members
    • Code of Practice on Consultation
    • Public Activities Material
    • CHCs in Action - (Publication)
    • The Politics of Consumer Representation - A Study of CHCs
    • The Legal History of CHCs
    • Legal - re. Closures
    • Directory of CHCs + LINks >
      • Brighton and District CHC
      • Brent CHC
      • Bristol CHC
      • Central + South Birmingham CHC
      • City and Hackney CHC
      • Croydon CHC
      • Greater London Association of CHCs - GLACHC
      • Haringey CHC
      • Islington CHC
      • Mid-Staffs CHC
      • SW Hertfordshire CHC
      • Southwark CHC
      • Wakefield CHC
    • Training and Skills for Members >
      • Skills for New CHC Members
      • Understanding the NHS and the Role of the CHC
      • Developing Skills as a CHC Member
      • Links to CHCs and Charities Database
      • Skills for CHC Chairs
      • Other Training Documents
      • PPI Short Courses >
        • Introduction and Surveys
        • Core 1 - User Involvement in Health and Social Care
        • Core 2 - What does User Involvement Mean?
        • Core 3 - Feeling Empowered in User Involvement
        • Theme 1 - Involvement in Service Planning and Improvement
        • Theme 2 - Involvement in Research and Activity
        • General Units
        • Link Person Handbook
  • Papers
    • IN-HOUSE Staff Publications - Introduction >
      • IN-HOUSE Publications - Listing
    • CHC Listings
    • CHC News >
      • CHC News - 1-94 (1975-1984)
      • CHC News - 1-112 (1986-1996)
      • CHC News - 1-37 (1996-2000)
    • CHC Public Activities Materials
    • NHS Dispute - Complaint
    • Presentations >
      • Presentations - PowerPoint
      • Presentations - Video
    • Foundation Trust Hospitals
    • GMC
    • Healthwatch England
    • Health Scrutiny
    • House of Commons Health Committee
    • ICAS
    • King's Fund
    • Normanton Hospital Inquiry
    • PALS
    • Local Involvement Networks - LINKs
    • PPI + LINks >
      • PPI Academic
      • PPI in the NHS >
        • The Effective PPI Forum - Guide
      • Patient Empowerment >
        • Power to the People in South East Thames
      • Public Representation of Health Bodies
      • Women's Health Publications >
        • Pennell Report on Women's Health (Publication)
        • Women's Health - Engaging Women
      • Enter and View
      • LINks Foundation Trusts
      • Kingston Hospital + Kingston PCT LINk
      • Public Involvement in the Private Finance Initiative
      • Response to the Health Committee Report
      • Private Hospitals
  • PUBLICATIONS
    • Publications - A
    • Publications - B
    • Publications - C
    • Publications - D-E-F-G
    • Publications - H-I-K-L-M
    • Publications - N-O-P-Q
    • Publications - R-S-T
    • Publications - U-V-W-Y
  • PRESS
    • ACHCEW's Press Releases
    • A&E + CASUALTYWATCH Press Cuttings
  • Cartoons
  • Gallery
    • Mass Lobby of Parliament
    • PHOTOS - Cafe Royal 08July2003