Clause 2 - Payments relating to past performance
Health and Social Care Bill
4:45 pm
Mr John Denham (Minister of State, Department of Health; Southampton, Itchen, Labour)
I am not saying that the only opportunity to indicate how performance may be measured is at the time of the allocation. The clause allows flexibility for in-year performance to be taken into account. Health authorities may need to be notified of the criteria to be taken into account, but in some circumstances it will not be possible for the exact measurement of those criteria to be made simultaneously or necessarily within the 28-day period in the amendment.