Clause16 - entry and inspection of premises
NHS Reform & Health Care Professions Bill
10:30 am
Mr Peter Atkinson (Hexham, Conservative)
In the course of my hon. Friend's remarks, will he consider what someone who wanted to resist such a visitation could do? The 1999 Act refers to:
''Any person who without reasonable excuse . . . obstructs a person''.
Presumably, the only recourse would be for them to refuse entry to the patients forum, and if they did so they might then appear in front of a court and put their case as to why they had not admitted the forum to the premises. I do not know how it would work but I am sure that my hon. Friend, as a lawyer, can advise the Committee.