Consultations
When law or guidance relevant to people with mental health problems is being updated, Rethink gets involved. We need to know your views to tell help us understand what needs improving.
Recent Consultations
Generic Prescribing March 2010 (80 kb)
Rethink's response to a Department of Health consultation to allow pharmacists to substitute branded medication with it's generic equivalent.
New Rights for patients in the NHS Constitution February 2010 (50 kb)
Rethink's response to a Department of Health consultation on new rights which patients will have under the NHS constitution.
Pathways to Work January 2010 (66 kb)
Rethink's response to a Department of Work and Pensions 'fact finding excercise' to assess the strengths and weaknesses of the Pathways to Work scheme
Direct Payments in Health January 2010 (97 kb)
Rethink's response to a Department of Health consultation on introducing Direct Payments for health services.
Security at High secure services November 09 (38 kb)
Rethink's response to a Department of Health consultation on the security procedureses at Broadmoor, Rampton and Ashworth hospitals.
If you are interested in rights, laws and good practice and you would like to be involved in the future, please contact policy@rethink.org or write to the Policy Manager at Rethink, 15th Floor, 89 Albert Embankment, London, SE1 7TP. We may ask you to write in your own views or exeriences to us, or perhaps to attend a workshop on a particular issue.
Past consultation responses - by category
- Carers
- Charity Law
- Choice, involvement and empowerment
- Criminal justice system
- Discrimination, equality and diversity
- Employment, benefits and housing
- Health services, quality and workforce
- Mental health law
- Public health and health inequalities
- Social Care
- Substance use and mental health
- Treatment and genetics
- Tribunals and justice
- Young people and the elderly

