NHS: Waiting Times

Debate between Lord Strathclyde and Lord Warner

Tuesday 22nd November 2011 Lords Chamber

[The Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster (Lord Strathclyde)]

Perhaps we may hear from one noble Lord from the other side at a time, and then from my noble friend.

[Lord Warner]

I am grateful to the noble Lord. Blessed is the sinner who repents. However, will the Minister tell us whether in the light of this repentance, he will, following my noble friend Lord Beecham’s Question, look sympathetically at amendments to the Health and Social Care Bill which will give patients the kind of safeguards that targets did under the previous Government?