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Health and Social Care Bill

After those extremely powerful speeches, there is little for me to add, except to say that Amendment No. 15, to which my name is attached, is an attempt to beef up Clause 2(3) which, as it stands, is rather feeble. I hope that, if nothing else, the Government will take away the need to strengthen that part of the clause. The amendment refers to engaging, "““with service users and members of the public through appropriate mechanisms and channels””." I like the word ““engage””. If I were to be honest, I should also like to see the word ““involve”” included, which is why I like a great deal of what Amendment No. 27 trying to do, even though my name is not attached to it. Currently, there is not any explicit reference to service users, families and carers in the Bill. There should be. The essence of Amendment No. 27 is excellent. I very much like the mention of special reviews, as the noble Baroness described. She also rightly mentioned the relevance of her amendment to detained patients in particular. Where I depart from the wording of it slightly is that it is a little vague in the wording of new subsection (1)(e). It is perhaps not as clear as it might be in defining the duty that the CQC will be expected to fulfil. But, with that slight reservation, I commend it to the Minister.