NHS (Rationing of Care)

Nigel Evans Excerpts

Monday 16th July 2012 Commons Chamber

[Mrs Glindon]

I will.

[Mr Deputy Speaker (Mr Nigel Evans)]

Order. You can make an intervention, Mr Reed, but not from the Opposition Front Bench. If you step up to another Bench, you may intervene from there.

[Mr Reed]

Thank you, Mr Deputy Speaker. I trust that this is in order.

Will my hon. Friend join me in asking the Minister, who has indicated that he will not take interventions from me this evening, whether he will undertake a nationwide investigation into the clear rationing that is occurring in the NHS, and whether the Government will publish a list of procedures in which the eligibility criteria for treatment are now being changed? Will she join me also in asking the Government to act where various NHS organisations are breaching NICE guidelines on treatments offered to patients?