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NHS Redress Bill [HL]

moved Amendment No. 40:"Page 5, line 40, after ““monitoring”” insert ““and annual review””" The noble Baroness said: My Lords, I return briefly to the subject of how the lessons which have to be learnt and the redress scheme which will be operated by individual NHS bodies will be reviewed. The purpose of the amendments is to ensure that the Healthcare Commission has the power to monitor the scheme and to produce an annual review, and that the commission’s work will reflect on the independence and the dissemination of training, performance and best practice in individual trusts. This is yet another way of trying to get to the heart of all this, in that lessons will not be learnt and good practice in developing the culture of learning in the NHS will not happen unless there is a reason for individual trusts to do so. We believe that incorporating that into a review will set up the learning culture which the Minister has referred to before. I beg to move.