HEALTH IMPROVEMENT AND PROTECTION BILL

KEY MEASURES

• making a vast majority of enclosed public places and workplaces smoke-free
• reducing healthcare associated infection : Introducing a code of practice, and measures to bring about compliance (anti-MRSA measures etc)
• abolishing two NDPBs and streamlining the auditing of Arms Length Bodies
• responding to Shipman Inquiry recommendations:
    -  action programme for safer management of controlled drugs; 
    - creating a right of entry for Primary Care Trust officers to healthcare     premises;
    -obliging co-operation between healthcare organisations and other local organisations (eg. police, local authorities).
• modernising pharmacy and ophthalmic services: including making best use of pharmacist workforce and enabling fully qualified technicians to supply drugs safely without the pharmacist needing to be present.

TERRITORIAL EXTENT

This has yet to be confirmed.

COMMENTS

If you have any comments on the proposals you can email them to:

dhmail@dh.gsi.gov.uk

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

Making a vast majority of enclosed public places and workplaces smoke-free
and reducing healthcare associated infections are fundamental parts of implementing the Choosing Health White Paper (November 2004), and implement two a key manifesto commitments.

The abolition of two NDPBs implements the of Department of Health's wider review of its Arms Length Bodies conducted last summer and will cut the numbers of its Arms Length Bodies by 50 per cent.