Clause 25 - Supplementary lists
Health and Social Care Bill
4:30 pm
Mr John Denham (Minister of State, Department of Health; Southampton, Itchen, Labour)
No, it is about establishing a better framework for ensuring that doctors, particularly locums, are properly regulated and supported. The list means that for the first time we can develop a proper system of appraisal for locum doctors akin to the system that applies to GPs. That has never existed before and amounts to one of the greatest single gains from our proposals.