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Health and Social Care Bill

My Lords, I want briefly to intervene and make a suggestion. The statement on user involvement states: "““The Commission must publish a statement describing how it proposes to— (a) promote awareness among service users and carers of its functions””." In Committee, I laboured the point regarding my personal experience. I would like to suggest to the Care Quality Commission as it begins its work that it should require homes to publish on their websites information about the existence of the commission’s reports and, if I had my way, actually to publish the reports. Most people, despite what other people think, do not even know of the existence of the current inspectorate arrangements prior to putting their relatives in homes. They find out about that pretty quickly when they are told about it, but very often they do not know in advance. I want a mechanism to inform people in advance, when they are looking at the glossies, that there is a report that they should read.