Clause 9 - Public Involvement and Consultation
Health and Social Care Bill
6:00 pm
Mr John Denham (Minister of State, Department of Health; Southampton, Itchen, Labour)
I do not agree. There is a difference between developing the most effective ways of having input into the strategic leadership role played by the health authority across the health economy as a whole and the focused function that is at the core of the patients forum work, which identifies the patient view and interests in relation to that organisation. Under that system, each element is designed for the job that we have asked it to undertake. There is no obvious reason why one should be specified fairly clearly, while a loser approach is taken to a different element at this stage in the development of the system.
Question put and agreed to.
Clause 9 ordered to stand part of the Bill.