Written evidence to be reported to the House
Health and Social Care Bill
11:30 am
Lord Kamlesh Patel: I think generally, in response to the Minister’s question, that of course you want to give flexibility to the new organisation, the new chief executive and the chair and the board, but for our purposes, we want to be very specific about two or three particular things. We want them on the face of the Bill because, from our experience of what might happen to this group of people who are so vulnerable, their issues will not be safeguarded unless provision is very specific and is on the face of the Bill, in terms of notifications, in terms of regular, frequent visiting and in terms of some accountability to Parliament from a particular individual or the board. On those two or three areas, we will be specific. It goes without saying that all of us agree that the human rights principle and the involvement of service users should be there and any organisation would agree with that.