Debates between Lord Harris of Haringey and Lord Winston during the 2010-2015 Parliament

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Health and Social Care Bill

Debate between Lord Harris of Haringey and Lord Winston
Monday 7th November 2011

(13 years ago)

Lords Chamber
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Lord Harris of Haringey Portrait Lord Harris of Haringey
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The experience within the NHS is that people go to law only because they feel that that is the only way in which they are going to get some clarity into what has actually happened.

Lord Winston Portrait Lord Winston
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That is not so.

Lord Harris of Haringey Portrait Lord Harris of Haringey
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I am sorry; I hear someone behind me saying that that is not so. My experience in my 12 years of leading the national consumer organisation representing patients in the NHS was that that was precisely the circumstance in which many people went to law. They went to law because they wanted to get the information. That was the fact, and I suspect that that is the reality.

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