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Compensation Bill [HL]

Before the noble Baroness moves on to the next amendment, on advertising, I recall that the Better Regulation Task Force report instanced on page 24 an advertisement headed, ““Did the doctor or nurse make you worse?””. I am delighted to see that the Minister has a copy in front of her. The Arculus report stated:"““We find this sort of advertising totally distasteful. The vast majority of doctors and nurses do not deliberately set out to harm patients . . . Whilst it would be difficult to ban such advertising we would like to see strict guidelines on such advertising introduced””." I merely mention that because, as I understand it, these advertisements still appear in hospitals. I wonder whether it might be helpful for Members of the Committee, before Report, to get a report from the Advertising Standards Authority about what action it feels able to take to stop this sort of advertising appearing, which will cause distress to a lot of people.