Clause 19 - The commission for patient and public involvement in health
NHS Reform & Health Care Professions Bill
4:15 pm
Dr Richard Taylor (Wyre Forest, Independent)
I shall be even briefer. The Under-Secretary has already assured us that promotion of public involvement will take place. We want to substitute the word ''monitoring'' to ensure that that happens. She has partly reassured me on amendment No. 222, which would ensure that there was a mechanism for a statutory body to refer to the Secretary of State. She has referred to that, but I am not clear in my mind which body it will end up being, so I would like a further reassurance that there will be such a body.