Clause 44 - Reviews of data
Health and Social Care (Community Health and Standards) Bill
8:55 am
Mr David Lammy (Parliamentary Secretary, Department of Health; Tottenham, Labour)
It is the Government's intention that CHAI should publish reports that deal with the needs of its audience, and that means that in a particular case a summary of its findings will be published. For example, were CHAI to perform a large-scale technical evaluation of a hospital trust's data set, a great deal of complicated material would be generated that may need to be summarised. Indeed, because of the long time over which the data are gathered they may be of little public relevance. In drafting the subsection in this manner, we are giving CHAI the flexibility to target its intended audience effectively in order that it can determine how best to disseminate its findings; we also wish to give it the discretion to make a determination on the audience for its report. The requirement is for CHAI to publish a
report, and the purpose of the subsection is to allow it to make that assessment.