Clause 2 - Payments relating to past performance
Health and Social Care Bill
11:45 am
Mr John Denham (Minister of State, Department of Health; Southampton, Itchen, Labour)
The hon. Member for Runnymede and Weybridge has every right to rehearse familiar arguments about the Government's approach to running the NHS and the emphasis that we have put on cutting waiting lists and waiting times. The NHS plan makes clear our plans to go further and cut waiting times in the years to come. We have also made clear that clinical need should take priority.