Clause 16 - Entry and Inspection of Premises
NHS Reform & Health Care Professions Bill
2:30 pm
Ms Hazel Blears (Parliamentary Under-Secretary (public health), Department of Health; Salford, Labour)
With respect, the hon. Gentleman is making heavy weather of the matter. I have already said that it will be dealt with in the forthcoming NHS (Wales) Bill. The Government want to enhance and deepen patient and public involvement in the whole national health service, not reduce it, and we have no wish to create inequity. There will be local consultation in Wales with all the relevant stakeholders about the type of organisation and the functions that they want for CHCs operating in their country. They will consider the reforms in order to decide exactly how they might be incorporated, and the detail will be dealt with in the NHS (Wales) Bill.
Amendment agreed to.
Amendment made: No. 157, in page 21, line 25, at end add—
''( )In subsection (1), ''local authorities'' has the same meaning as in section 31 of the 1999 Act (arrangements between NHS bodies and local authorities).''.—[Ms Blears.]
Clause 16, as amended, ordered to stand part of the Bill.