In its role as a champion of care home residents, R&RA makes sure that it comments in detail on all official policy documents and reports that have a bearing on residents’ interests.

2008
• R&RA's Briefing on Health & Social Care Bill
  R&RA has prepared a briefing for the second reading of the Health & Social Care Bill in the House of Lords. It expresses concern that the new regulatory system set out in the Bill which merges the Health Care Commission and the Commission for Social Care Inspection will provide less protection for care home residents than at present.  read more ...
  
  
• R&RA submission to the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Dementia Inquiry Call for evidence.
  R&RA responded to a call for evidence on the use of anti-psychotic drugs in care homes for people with dementia.  read more ...
  
  

2007
• R&RA submission to the consultation document 'Making experiences count: a new approach to responding to complaints'
  which sets out the government's proposals for a unified approach to complaints handling across health and social care…read more ...
  
  
• R&RA submission to the Joint Committee on Human Rights
  R&RA gave evidence to the Parliamentary select committee on human rights in March, drawing attention to cases dealt with by the R&RA advice line where potential breaches of the Human Rights Act were involved…read more
  
  
• Future Regulation of health and Adult Social care – response
  R&RA is concerned that Department of health proposals focus too much on proportionality, elf-assessment and risk and consequently may undermine the protection given by regulation to frail, vulnerable people …read more ...
  
  

2006
• R&RA response to consultation on NHS Continuing Care R&RA has submitted its response to the Department of Health’s consultation on the new national framework for assessing eligibility for NHS funded continuing care. White it welcomes the establishment of a national framework to avoid the existing inconsistency of approach to assessment, it has reservation about how it will work in practice… read more
  
  
• Comments on the Commission for Social Care Inspection's guidance on care home inspections The Commission for Social Care Inspection has published Key Lines of Regulatory Assessment (KLORA) for care homes for older people to assist its inspectors in their care home inspections. R&RA is concerned that they may lead to confusion – will they be used for training or for undertaking actual inspections; will they duplicate or even contradict existing national minimum standards; how will they affect the overall assessment of a care home’s performance?.....read more
  
  

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