Clause 19
NHS Redress Bill [Lords]
10:15 am
Siôn Simon (Birmingham, Erdington, Labour)
Quite simply, the independence as envisioned by me and by AvMA does not come from the kind of arrangements that the hon. Gentleman describes and which were envisaged in clause 12. The independence comes through some version of the joint instruction by the trust and the claimant of independent medical experts. That is the independence that we are talking about and that, briefly, is the answer to his question.