Clause 16 - Intervention orders
Health and Social Care Bill
11:45 am
Mr Philip Hammond (Runnymede and Weybridge, Conservative)
As I said in my previous intervention, I had a substantive point. I ask the Minister to press his rewind button by about five minutes. During his attempt to outline the scope of the likely use of the clause, it was not apparent how many organisations in the NHS are likely to be red. The document that he has circulated makes it clear that the initial quota of green lights will be 25 per cent. We need to understand whether he expects the initial quota of red lights to be two, three, 10 or 1,000. What is the scale? Does he intend the quota of red lights to be 25 per cent?
Will the Minister also clarify a point that arises from his example of failure of renal services? Is it appropriate to place a trust in the red-light category owing to a failure in one of its services when its overall performance is good?