You can now comment on this draft quality standard.

Closing date for comments: Tuesday 28 October 2025 at 5pm

Read the consultation documents

• Draft quality standard (downloadable version)
• Equality and health inequalities assessment (downloadable version)

Background information

• Briefing paper

How to comment

Use our comments formand email it to: [email protected] by 5pm on Tuesday 28 October 2025 at 5pm

Stakeholder organisations

If you’re commenting for an organisation, your organisation needs to be registered as a stakeholder before we can accept comments.

Not eligible to be a stakeholder? Contact the stakeholder organisation that most closely represents your interests and pass your comments to them.

Would you like to support this quality standard

If you would like your organisation to formally support this quality standard please email [email protected] to express an interest. Those who support quality standards must be national organisations who meet the eligibility criteria.

Guideline

The consultation on the draft guideline which underpins the quality standard is also now open.

Please see the consultation webpage for further information.