Clause 11 - Duty of quality
NHS Reform & Health Care Professions
11:15 pm
Mr Simon Burns (West Chelmsford, Conservative)
The Minister is being a little naive in coming out with that pious point. He knows as well as anyone that under the discredited waiting list initiative of the previous Parliament, clinicians and hospital managers were under such pressure to meet the politically motivated number deadlines that clinical decisions were grossly distorted. That was done to ensure that Ministers, including the Prime Minister, were not embarrassed by a failure to meet promised targets.