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Health Bill [HL]

The constitution is quite a thick document. In it there are some serious paragraphs about patient and public responsibilities—and they are very serious responsibilities indeed. Everyone in the health service will have a copy of this in the hospital, or wherever they work, in whatever part of the health service they work. But what about the patients? As I say, there are some strong words here about the responsibilities of the patients and the public. Is it planned to send this—not the small, annotated version but the document itself—to every household in the country? After all, the French were able to do that in relation to the European constitution; I do not see why we should not be able to do something like this as well. Is that the plan, or are patients and the public not to be considered?