Clause 51 - Annual reviews
Health and Social Care(Community Health and Standards) Bill
2:30 pm
Mr David Lammy (Parliamentary Secretary, Department of Health; Tottenham, Labour)
I shall not go into semantics and a wider discussion of the clinical aspects of health outcomes. Clearly, mortality is a health outcome. How the hon. Gentleman seeks to determine and define that is a matter for him. The important point is that there is a range of performance indicators and I was seeking to establish—I hope that I did so—that as well as patient-focused outcomes and a capacity focus to some of the indicators, there are also clinical outcomes.