In September 2005, the Department of Health announced "Your Health, Your Care, Your Say", a consultation process to allow interested individuals and organisations to submit views about the content of White Paper on the future structure of community health care services.

The White Paper was due for publication at the beginning of 2006.

The consultation required that responses be submitted in a standardised format, using an online questionnaire. The MHF made two separate submissions based on two separate "view-canvassing" exercises. The document you can download below comprises the full text of those two submissions, removed from the context of the consultation questionnaire.

The only editing has been to omit brief passages here and there which referred to the structure of the questionnaire. Headings have been added to make the document more logical to read.

The results of our consultation are likely to have value for anyone interested in improving service provision for men.