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Care Bill [HL] — Committee (3rd Day) (Continued) (12 June 2013)

Lord Warner: I am sorry to interrupt the noble Baroness’s flow, but could I just get her to expand a little bit on the approach on the issue I raised about protecting the employer? I was pleased to hear what she was saying about using the registration process to impose the duty of candour on the employer, but there remains the concern, which I think a number of us have, about how the employee who...

Care Bill [HL] — Committee (3rd Day) (Continued) (12 June 2013)

Lord Warner: My Lords, I shall speak to Amendment 77 standing in my name. I have taken a slight different approach from that of my noble friend, but I was out of the traps a little before him. I was trying to do something slightly different, but I am equally happy with his rather more elegant amendment on the duty of candour. Whether I have got the wording of the amendment right is another matter, but I...

Care Bill [HL] — Committee (3rd Day) (Continued) (12 June 2013)

Lord Warner: Clearly the noble Baroness has clarified matters, but whether she has reassured me is another question. I think the Government underestimate the profile of the chief hospital inspector in particular. There is no doubt that this will be a very powerful and important post with an enormous profile. The idea that this person can be overruled by the chief executive and the board, as this...

Care Bill [HL] — Committee (3rd Day) (Continued) (12 June 2013)

Lord Warner: That is extremely helpful, but my noble friend is absolutely right. Bearing in mind our earlier discussion about warning notices and enforcement, in reality what the chief hospital inspector says in many cases is what will determine whether the CQC goes ahead with a warning notice, which might trigger trust special administration. That is a really powerful position in the public arena. I...

Care Bill [HL] — Committee (3rd Day) (Continued) (12 June 2013)

Lord Warner: My Lords, I have put down this amendment to explore briefly the Government’s thinking on the appointments set out in the amendment. As has already been said, I am sure we are all delighted that Professor Sir Mike Richards has been appointed Chief Inspector of Hospitals. I was doubtful about the practicality of this post but if anybody can make a success of it, I think Mike Richards can....

Care Bill [HL]: Committee (3rd Day) (12 June 2013)

Lord Warner: My Lords, I am sorry to interrupt, but I have here a document that the noble Earl’s department sent out in May, signed up to by the TDA, Monitor and the CQC. I want to direct his attention to paragraph 27 of that document, which I mentioned in my remarks. As I understand it, this sets out the Government’s policy on the relative difference between TDA and Monitor. It makes it very...

Care Bill [HL]: Committee (3rd Day) (12 June 2013)

Lord Warner: My Lords, I clarify that I did not seek to attack the TDA. What my noble friend has said has made me more worried. What happens if these trusts do not make it to FT and people get fed up with the TDA and decide to try something different? We would still have these trusts, which would be providing services, still on the receiving end of CQCs, so why does the Bill not provide for some of these...

Care Bill [HL]: Committee (3rd Day) (12 June 2013)

Lord Warner: My Lords, I will speak to Amendments 65, 66 and 67 and to Clause 77 standing part. I share very much the concerns expressed by my noble friend Lord Hunt and I am not going to repeat what he said about the slightly strange situation that we are now in with the CQC having enforcement responsibilities in relation to some bodies that it registers but not in relation to others. I want to...

Care Bill [HL]: Committee (3rd Day) (12 June 2013)

Lord Warner: My Lords, at the risk of lowering the tone even further, perhaps I may just take us back and slightly challenge the noble Lord, Lord Walton, which I do not normally do. I also took the Human Tissue Act through this House. I am well seized of the circumstances that we faced then. At the time, I was bombarded by the research community with their concerns about setting up that body and whether...

Care Bill [HL]: Committee (3rd Day) (12 June 2013)

Lord Warner: My Lords, I rise because I gave an assurance to the noble Lord, Lord Willis, that I would speak on this amendment as I have form, as they say, in this area. Ten or so years ago, when one person accused me of being rather like Vlad the Impaler and we were slaughtering, as well as merging, a number of quangos, two of the candidates for merger were the Human Tissue Authority and the HFEA. Much...

Health: Children's Heart Services — Statement (12 June 2013)

Lord Warner: My Lords, I take us back to Sir Ian Kennedy’s review 12 years ago in which he made it crystal clear that unless we significantly reduced the number of these centres, children would continue to die unnecessarily. That was the brutal conclusion of the Bristol inquiry. Has anything come out of the IRP review that fundamentally changes the July 2012 decision of the Joint Committee of...

Care Bill [HL]: Committee (2nd Day) (Continued) (10 June 2013)

Lord Warner: My Lords, that was an interesting and rather complicated set of assurances from the noble Earl. I would like to consider it carefully and talk to my noble friend Lord Turnberg and the noble Lord, Lord Patel, before considering whether to go any further. As an observation, if the EU directives are going in the direction of this amendment and there is a lot of concern to make sure that patients...

Care Bill [HL]: Committee (2nd Day) (Continued) (10 June 2013)

Lord Warner: Perhaps I may respond to my noble friend. I was arguing the case on behalf of the Joint Committee as much as anything else. The committee heard a lot of evidence on this, and across the parties, and across the Commons and the Lords, the conclusions were drawn up in its report to the Government. I say to my noble friend that most of these clinical trials look at a product which is being tried...

Care Bill [HL]: Committee (2nd Day) (Continued) (10 June 2013)

Lord Warner: My Lords, I suspect that the amendment has a similar purpose to Amendment 63, in the names of the noble Lords, Lord Turnberg and Lord Patel. The purpose is to ensure that in exercising its functions the HRA not only promotes the interests of research participants and those of the wider public in facilitating research but, in doing so, has to ensure that the publication of research findings...

Care Bill [HL]: Committee (2nd Day) (10 June 2013)

Lord Warner: My Lords, perhaps I may ask the noble Earl a question before he sits down because I am getting increasingly puzzled by this debate. I agree with him that a list does not of itself do very much to protect the public, particularly if it is a list of apples, oranges, bananas, pears, cherries or whatever—and this is a list of people with different qualifications or experiences. However, the...

Care Bill [HL]: Committee (2nd Day) (10 June 2013)

Lord Warner: I am grateful to the Minister for his remarks and I take them very seriously. I do not wish to be churlish, but I may be tempted along that path a little way. Clause 85, as I understand it, is a regulation-making power. It seems to envisage that the Government of the day will from time to time make regulations that relate to very specific groups of staff. I have read the provision carefully,...

Care Bill [HL]: Committee (2nd Day) (10 June 2013)

Lord Warner: I would like to reflect further on this. In the mean time, I beg leave to withdraw the amendment. Amendment 13 withdrawn. Amendments 14 and 15 not moved. Clause 85 agreed. Amendment 16 Moved by Baroness Greengross 16: After Clause 85, insert the following new Clause— “Regulation of healthcare and care assistants (1) HEE shall establish and maintain a register of qualified...

Care Bill [HL]: Committee (2nd Day) (10 June 2013)

Lord Warner: My Lords, the purpose of this amendment is to require HEE to give attention to ensuring that, in educating and training staff for the NHS, it also ensures that, as far as possible, staff can work across the health/social care boundary in an integrated way. I welcome the fact that the Government have inserted into Clause 88(1) paragraph (h), which states that Health Education England must have...

Care Bill [HL]: Committee (1st Day) (Continued) (4 June 2013)

Lord Warner: My Lords, I support this group of amendments, particularly Amendments 8 and 12. We had a good run over the issue of the equivalence between physical and mental health in the Health and Social Care Act. We need to move on from this rather semantic debate about whether healthcare involves both physical and mental health. Out there in the real world, there is a real sense and feeling that mental...

Care Bill [HL]: Committee (1st Day) (4 June 2013)

Lord Warner: Let me assure the noble Baroness that I shall be in good voice on the subject of social care on Amendment 13. It was helpful to hear what the Minister had to say about advisory committees and advisers. I listened carefully. I did not note anything about those advisory committees or an adviser for what I might call the sub-professional group. I am sure that the professions will be extremely...