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Health and Social Care Bill

My Lords, if I might intervene briefly, I think that this short debate has just illustrated that some people in our community are extremely vulnerable to small changes in commissioning, which may deny them a product that they need to maintain their independence and dignity and to be able to function fully in life and feel like a whole person. It is not appropriate for us to look only at some of the things that are easy to count—such as hip operations, major heart disease or whatever. Issues such as continence devices are difficult for people to talk about. It takes a lot of courage to raise them in a debate, as the noble Baronesses have done today, but they are incredibly important and there is a real concern out there that people will not get what they need to carry on functioning in the society in which we live.