Clause 5
Health and Social Care Bill
5:00 pm
Angela Browning (Deputy Chairman, The Conservative Party; Tiverton and Honiton, Conservative)
If I have understood the Minister correctly, he will, following the consultation on which he is embarking—I welcome that—draw up a list of procedures or treatments that will be subject to regulation. How will that impact on private clinics? One serious problem has been leaking silicone breast implants. The health service often has to do the repair work when that happens because a women’s health can be seriously damaged if the implants go wrong. If a clinic is involved, will just the one procedure that it carries out be covered? If it is negligent in, or not very good at, one procedure, there is a question mark against all the other procedures carried out on its premises.