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NHS Redress Bill [Lords]

The one thing that strikes me as a common chord is that I do not believe that there is any financial difference between an independent and an in-house investigation, in so far as there is an opportunity cost in taking surgeons and doctors away from their duties. My main concern is that if independent people are brought in, they will not know the operating methods in the hospital, so it will take them longer to get to the nitty-gritty of the affairs, to get to the people that they need to reach, and to get the information. I am talking about that time delay. Those people might not come up with the same degree of accuracy when they carry out the investigation. That is my difficulty with the independent aspects.