Health and Care Bill - Report (1st Day) (Continued) – in the House of Lords at 10:45 pm on 1 March 2022.
Lord Kamall:
Moved by Lord Kamall
20: Clause 20, page 16, line 33, leave out “patients” and insert “persons”Member’s explanatory statementAn integrated care board has a duty to have regard to the need to reduce inequalities in access to health services for patients. The Amendment extends it to cover people before they are patients.
21: Clause 20, page 16, line 36, at end insert “(including the outcomes described in section 14Z34(3))”Member’s explanatory statementThis amendment makes it explicit that the duty for an integrated care board to have regard to the need to reduce inequalities in outcomes for patients covers outcomes such as the quality of experience undergone by patients.
Amendments 20 and 21 agreed.
Amendment 22 not moved.
As a bill passes through Parliament, MPs and peers may suggest amendments - or changes - which they believe will improve the quality of the legislation.
Many hundreds of amendments are proposed by members to major bills as they pass through committee stage, report stage and third reading in both Houses of Parliament.
In the end only a handful of amendments will be incorporated into any bill.
The Speaker - or the chairman in the case of standing committees - has the power to select which amendments should be debated.
A parliamentary bill is divided into sections called clauses.
Printed in the margin next to each clause is a brief explanatory `side-note' giving details of what the effect of the clause will be.
During the committee stage of a bill, MPs examine these clauses in detail and may introduce new clauses of their own or table amendments to the existing clauses.
When a bill becomes an Act of Parliament, clauses become known as sections.
