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

See our page on Fair Treatment Now - Health White Paper, our response to Liberating the NHS, the health white paper.

Carers Strategy Refresh September 2010 (122 kb) [doc] Rethink's response to a call for evidence to refresh the Carers Strategy

WCA review joint submission September 2010 (199 kb) [doc] Rethink's response, jointly with Mind, the Royal College of Psychiatrists and the Centre for Mental Health, to the Harrington Review of the Work Capability Assessment.

Justice Select Committee Inquiry: Role of the Probation Service (85 kb) [doc] Rethink's response to a Justice Select Committee Inquiry into the role of probation services.

Generic Prescribing March 2010 (80 kb) [doc] Rethink's response to a Department of Health consultation to allow pharmacists to substitute branded medication with it's generic equivalent.

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