Clause 50 - National performance data
Health and Social Care (Community Health and Standards) Bill
9:30 am
Mr Paul Burstow (Sutton and Cheam, Liberal Democrat)
These amendments deal with the issue of data and the way in which data are published and reported on by CHAI. The amendments are intended to seek further clarification from the Government on their thinking and on the purpose of the clause.
I hope that the Under-Secretary will be able to elaborate further about the way in which it is intended that CHAI will publish these reports. In the previous debate, the Under-Secretary said that CHAI would be empowered to make decisions about when it would publish material in an abbreviated or summarised form. Amendment No. 418 seeks to go further and clarify whether the Government intend that particular categories of data, relating to the performance of NHS bodies, especially cross-border SHAs, will be published, and I look forward to hearing what they intend to do in respect of amendment No. 418.