Clause 14 - Abolition of community health councils in england
Health and Social Care Bill
11:15 am
Mr Paul Burstow (Sutton and Cheam, Liberal Democrat)
What struck me as I read the NHS plan, the explanatory notes and the briefing paper is that the Government have managed to create a feeling of anti-synergy--the sum of the parts of this new structure will be worth less than the whole, and will reduce and diminish because they do not connect one with another. They do not enable the picture and patterns of individual complaints to be discerned. As a result, we will not benefit from synergy: we will lose synergy in this new system. CHCs may well have their flaws, but at least they integrate the various aspects of individual complaints and have an overview of the system as a whole. At their best, that is what they should and can do, and that is why we need reform.