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Health Care in London

I shall in a moment, but let me finish my point. There is no accountability to the communities that they serve. The Minister's second assertion was that the whole process is clinically driven, but we know that that simply is not the case. I wish to refer to an anonymous e-mail that I received from someone who describes himself as""a (traditionally Labour voting) commissioner working in the sector"" in north-west London. He refers to the fact that the clinicians have been""either left in the dark or openly hostile"." This is a process that is "clinically led", but very much the opposite is in fact the case. The process almost seems designed to alienate the public and the clinicians who are desperately trying to provide services. My hon. Friend the Member for Kingston and Surbiton (Mr. Davey) has referred to conversations that he has had with local clinicians who are deeply frustrated by what is going on. They may have been involved in the process, but they do not want it and they are not leading it in any sense of that word.