RCGP consultations
The College responds to many consultations each year and welcomes input from our members.
Open consultations
There are no consultations currently open for responses.
Contact us
We are keen for members to input into our consultation responses. To comment on any of the consultations here, or to let us know about a consultation we may have missed, please contact policy@rcgp.org.uk.
Completed consultations
We respond to policy consultations issued by the UK government and devolved administrations, health regulators, and national and international bodies. Please find below the College's responses to major consultations from recent years.
August
July
- Good medical practice: public consultation on core guidance on professional standards (PDF file, 497 KB)
- Response to Abortion Services (Safe Access Zones) Bill in Scotland (Word doc, 100 KB)
June
- Urgent and Emergency Care consultation response, Northern Ireland (PDF file, 245 KB)
- Health and Social Care Committee – Digital Transformation in the NHS (not yet published)
- Scotland response to Gender Recognition Reform Bill (PDF file, 492 KB)
May
- Minimum Unit Pricing consultation response, Northern Ireland (PDF file, 158 KB)
- Department for Health and Social Care – Working in Partnership with People and Communities (PDF file, 350 KB)
- Scottish Mental Health Law Review (DOC file, 148 KB)
April
March
- Prevention of Homelessness Duties Consultation (DOC file, 63 KB)
- Healthcare regulation: deciding when statutory regulation is appropriate (DOC file, 53 KB)
February
- Self harm: assessment, management and preventing recurrence (NICE Guidance) (not yet published)
- Menopause: Diagnosis and management (NICE Scope) (Clinical policy)
- Government Equalities Office consultation on banning conversion therapy (PDF file, 565 KB)
- Department of Health and Social Care consultation on revoking vaccination as a condition of deployment across all health and social care (PDF file, 322 KB)
January
- Professional Behaviours and Communication Principles for working across Primary and Secondary Care Interfaces in Northern Ireland (PDF file, 791 KB)
- Cardiovascular disease: risk assessment and reduction, including lipid modification (NICE Scope) (Clinical policy)
- Health and Social Care Committee inquiry on workforce: recruitment, training and retention in health and social care (PDF file, 517 KB)
December
- Vaccine uptake in the population (NICE Guidance) (Clinical policy)
- Gout: diagnosis and management (NICE Guidance) (Clinical policy)
- Health and Social Care Select Committee Inquiry – The future of general practice (PDF file, 681 KB)
- RCGPNI response to the 10 year cancer strategy from Department of Health NI (PDF file, 170 KB)
November
- Type 1 diabetes in adults: diagnosis and management – glucose monitoring and diagnosis (NICE Guideline) (Clinical policy)
- Type 2 diabetes in adults: management – glucose monitoring (NICE Guidance) (Clinical policy)
- Gambling: Identification, diagnosis and management (NICE Scope) (Clinical policy)
- Depression in adults: treatment and management (update) (NICE Guidance) (Clinical policy)
- Epilepsies in children, young people and adults (NICE Guidance) (Clinical policy)
- Scottish Government consultation on A National Care Service for Scotland (PDF file, 53.7 KB)
October
- Recognising and Managing Medical Emergencies in Eating Disorders (RCPsych) (Clinical policy)
- Maternal and child nutrition (NICE Scope) (Clinical policy)
- Safe prescribing and withdrawal management of prescribed drugs associated with dependence and withdrawal (NICE Guidance) (Clinical policy)
- Department for Health and Social Care consultation on making vaccination a condition of deployment in the health and wider social care sector (PDF file, 489 KB)
September
- Type 2 diabetes in adults: management (NICE Scope) (Clinical policy)
- Health and Social Care Select Committee Inquiry - Clearing the backlog caused by the pandemic (PDF file, 429 KB)
August
- Brain tumours (primary) and brain metastasis in over 16s (Quality Standard) (Clinical policy)
- Managing the long-term effects of COVID-19 (NICE guideline) (Clinical policy)
- Nursing and Midwifery Council – Draft standards for community and public health nursing (PDF file, 415 KB)
- NHS England and Improvement - England Medical Performers List Review - Information Gathering (PDF file, 218 KB)
- NHSX – Draft strategy - Data saves lives: reshaping health and social care with data (PDF file, 428 KB)
June
- Department for Health and Social Care - Women's Health Strategy (PDF file, 463 KB)
- Department for Health and Social Care – Regulating healthcare professionals, protecting the public (PDF file, 539 KB)
May
- Nuffield Council on Bioethics - The care and treatment of children and adolescents in relation to their gender identity: ethical issues (PDF file, 264 KB)
- NHS England & Improvement - System Oversight Framework 2021/22 Consultation (PDF file, 500 KB)
- Health and Care Professions Council – Questions for medical profession on HCPC regulation of advanced practice (PDF file, 91 KB)
April
March
- Cabinet Office COVID-status certification review call for evidence (PDF file, 424 KB)
- Health and Social Care Select Committee - Inquiry: Department for Health and Social Care white paper Integration and Innovation: working together to improve health and social care for all (PDF file, 494 KB)
- Care Quality Commission - Consultation on changes for more flexible and responsive regulation (PDF file, 478 KB)
- Care Quality Commission - The world of health and social care is changing. So are we. Strategy consultation (PDF file, 453 KB)
February
January
October
September
- Department of Health and Social Care - Reducing bureaucracy in the health and social care system (PDF file, 139 KB)
- RCGP submission to HM Treasury Comprehensive Spending Review 2020 (PDF file, 477 KB)
June
January
- NHS England and Improvement: Primary Care Networks – Service Specifications (PDF file, 290 KB)
- RCGP Letter to Simon Stevens regarding Primary Care Networks - Service Specifications (PDF file, 140 KB)
Clinical policy consultations
RCGP responds to many clinical consultations each year, focusing on areas that are key to primary care where we can make an impact on clinical practice. We respond to policy consultations issued by the UK government, health regulators, and national and international bodies.
Quality standards endorsed by RCGP
RCGP consultations archive
Older consultations have been recorded permanently in the internet archive should you wish to view them.