Clause 14 - Authorised services
Health and Social Care (Community Health and Standards) Bill
12:00 pm
Mr Andrew Lansley (South Cambridgeshire, Conservative)
Although the Minister keeps repeating that point, he has not answered the question. The burden of my contribution was that there is a safeguard, which is that, through authorisation, the independent regulator could provide that the capacity of an NHS foundation trust should not be used for private patients in circumstances in which any NHS commissioner required that capacity. Why can the Minister not accept that as an adequate safeguard, providing greater flexibility?