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HANSARDHealth Bill (Third sitting)The Liberal Democrats broadly support the abolition of NHS England. As constituency MPs and users of the NHS, we see a huge amount of duplication and unnecessary bureaucracy as…18 Jun 2026 · 2d agoHANSARDHealth Bill (First sitting)I am a vice-president of the Local Government Association.16 Jun 2026 · 4d agoHANSARDHealth Bill (First sitting)Q Good morning, Dr Dash. Since hearing the evidence that was given to the Health and Social Care Committee, have you reflected on the concerns that the driver of confidence in…16 Jun 2026 · 4d agoHANSARDHealth Bill (First sitting)Q I should have declared that I am a member of the patient safety APPG. Let me turn to similar concerns about Healthwatch and its independence. If it is absorbed within ICBs…16 Jun 2026 · 4d agoHANSARDHealth Bill (First sitting)Q Good morning. Sarah, the Bill transfers a lot of NHSE’s powers to the Secretary of State. Do you have any concerns about the additional powers conferred upon the Secretary of…16 Jun 2026 · 4d agoHANSARDHealth Bill (First sitting)Q Jacob, how prepared are ICBs and local authorities to take on the healthwatch functions? Is there a concern that splitting the local healthwatch function will lead to a lack of…16 Jun 2026 · 4d agoHANSARDHealth Bill (First sitting)Q Can I also ask about the single patient record? We have heard concern from GPs about their role in being the data controller and what that might mean when data is shared beyond…16 Jun 2026 · 4d agoHANSARDHealth Bill (First sitting)Q Do you think anything else should be on the face of the Bill to give us clarity so that that GP concern is mitigated? Kay Keane: The patients need to understand exactly who has…16 Jun 2026 · 4d agoHANSARDHealth Bill (First sitting)Q I re-declare that I am a member of the all-party parliamentary group on patient safety. We have heard this morning about a tension between needing to be able to report when…16 Jun 2026 · 4d agoHANSARDHealth Bill (First sitting)Q What could be changed in this legislation to ensure that HSSIB can retain trust and independence from the regulatory body? Dr Benneyworth: There needs to be much more clarity…16 Jun 2026 · 4d agoHANSARDHealth Bill (First sitting)Q I am a member of the all-party parliamentary group on patient safety, and one of the things we have heard is that the idea behind HSSIB and the air accidents investigation…16 Jun 2026 · 4d agoHANSARDHealth Bill (First sitting)Q As a former Secretary of State for Health, what are your reflections on the abolition of Healthwatch and the absorption of its functions into the Department of Health, ICBs and…16 Jun 2026 · 4d agoHANSARDHealth Bill (Second sitting)Q I am a member of the all-party parliamentary group on patient safety and I am also a vice-president of the Local Government Association. Can I ask about Healthwatch? We heard…16 Jun 2026 · 4d agoHANSARDHealth Bill (Second sitting)Q My second question is similar. In reality and in practice, how do you envisage ICBs will be locally accountable once these legislative changes have taken place? Sir Ciarán…16 Jun 2026 · 4d agoHANSARDHealth Bill (Second sitting)Q Sarah, the Patients Association has said that it is concerned about this reorganisation distracting from patient priorities. Could you elaborate on where those concerns come…16 Jun 2026 · 4d agoHANSARDHealth Bill (Second sitting)Q My second question is about Healthwatch. The Committee heard this morning about the variability of Healthwatch’s effectiveness at a local level. What could be done to ensure…16 Jun 2026 · 4d agoHANSARDHealth Bill (Second sitting)Q I am a vice-president of the LGA, and I am also on the all-party parliamentary patient safety group, just to declare that interest up front. I will use the example of my own…16 Jun 2026 · 4d agoHANSARDHealth Bill (Second sitting)I am directing it at all three, if that is okay.16 Jun 2026 · 4d agoHANSARDHealth Bill (Second sitting)Q Do you think that the health and wellbeing boards, as envisaged by the Bill, will be the right structure to deliver those relationships, and how do you ensure that they have the…16 Jun 2026 · 4d agoHANSARDHealth Bill (Second sitting)Q We have talked a lot about the single patient record, but I want to touch on whether the Bill does enough for people who have historically not been listened to, as we have heard…16 Jun 2026 · 4d ago