Community health councils. Their role after the NHS White Paper

Christine Hogg and Fedelma Winkler review the major and varied changes being introduced in the management of community health councils by different regional health authorities in the wake of the NHS Bill. This piecemeal approach may lead to more variations in the standards of service that individual CHCs offer the public and they argue that there needs to be a coherent policy about the role of CHCs and evaluation and monitoring of their functions.