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Older People's Rights (Health Care)

On the new regulators' duties and whistleblowers, I cannot give my hon. Friend a definitive answer, as we are considering the issue at the moment. However, the new standards will be put out for consultation. It is certainly one of the issues that I am considering. Ipsos MORI has been commissioned to conduct an independent evaluation of the pilots. Once we have received it, we will decide how to mainstream them through the national health service. We want to look at best practice and the trusts that have operated a human rights approach, then consider the implications of mainstreaming that approach throughout the health and social care system. This debate has demonstrated that the Select Committee's report has led to significant change. The human rights debate in health and social care has been given much more serious attention than before, but I say to my hon. Friend the Member for Hendon and other hon. Members that we still have a considerable way to go. Part of it will involve legislation and regulation, but some of it involves cultural and attitudinal change.