Clause 51 - Annual reviews
Health and Social Care (Community Health and Standards) Bill
10:00 am
Mr Chris Grayling (Epsom and Ewell, Conservative)
The hon. Gentleman is a little naïve in his understanding of the interpretation of such a situation. It is quite clearly a device used by hospitals to allow an extra month in waiting times. To ask someone when they are on holiday and to add two weeks to the maximum waiting time that is permitted under current rules to give themselves a little more leeway hardly seems to be—