Clause 27 - PMS and PDS lists
Health and Social Care Bill
5:45 pm
Mr Desmond Swayne (New Forest West, Conservative)
I accept what the Minister says about having taken the unusual step of putting the requirement to consult in the Bill. He has done that in 24 in respect of general medical services, but not respect of personal medical services. Precisely that omission gives rise to the suspicion that has always existed about the Government's motives for PMS.
I can understand the Minister saying that a different kind of negotiation and consultation would be appropriate for PMS, although I disagree—for precisely the reasons that I set out in respect of the national infrastructure to which the national plan refers. I can understand the Minster deciding that the consultation on PMS should be different from the consultation in clause 24, but clause 27 contains no requirement for consultation. If the Minister has ideas about a different type of consultation before the regulations are made, perhaps he should have put something in the Bill. We have not found what the Minister has said reassuring, but because of the drafting errors in our own amendments, we will not press them. However, I give notice that we will seek to return to the matter on Report. I beg to ask leave to withdraw the amendment.
Amendment, by leave, withdrawn.
Amendments made: No. 165 in page 26, line 12, leave out `8A' and insert `8ZA'
No. 111, in page 26, line 40, leave out from beginning to end of line 41.
No. 166, in page 26, line 46, leave out `by Health Authorities'.
No. 112, in page 27, line 9, at end insert—
`( ) circumstances in which a person included in a services list may not withdraw from it,'
No. 167, in page 27, line 31, leave out `49k(1)' and insert `49k'.—[Mr. Denham].
Clause 27, as amended, ordered to stand part of the Bill.