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Older People's Rights (Health Care)

Secondary information

Type

Parliamentary proceeding

Reference

473 c115-50WH 

Session

2007-08

Department

Department of Health

Chamber / Committee

Westminster Hall

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Proceeding contributions

Andrew Dismore | 473 c148WH (Link to this contribution) I have listened to the hon. Gentleman. The Select Committee will produce a report on the Bill of Rig...

Greg Mulholland | 473 c148WH (Link to this contribution) I accept that there is a legal debate, but I am not a lawyer, so I cannot contribute to that debate....

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Andrew Dismore | 473 c148-9WH (Link to this contribution) I am afraid that people in more or less equivalent positions often have vastly different rights. The...

Stephen O'Brien | 473 c149WH (Link to this contribution) And lawyers.

Andrew Dismore | 473 c146WH (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend has touched on most of the issues that I raised, but I should like to ask him about t...

Ivan Lewis | 473 c146-7WH (Link to this contribution) On the new regulators' duties and whistleblowers, I cannot give my hon. Friend a definitive answer, ...

Andrew Dismore | 473 c147-8WH (Link to this contribution) I shall not say a great deal, because we have had a good debate. I appreciate my hon. Friend's appro...

Stephen O'Brien | 473 c148WH (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman and I are both trained lawyers, so there is grave danger of our getting into a lu...

Andrew Dismore | 473 c145WH (Link to this contribution) I certainly think that that approach to discharge is the right one; I do not dissent from it. Our co...

Ivan Lewis | 473 c145-6WH (Link to this contribution) What is appropriate is that people implement best practice in care. If we need to clarify that, I am...

Andrew Dismore | 473 c149-50WH (Link to this contribution) Indeed. The more one gets into it, the more complicated it becomes. That is why the Committee decide...

Ivan Lewis | 473 c133WH (Link to this contribution) May I seek clarification on the hon. Gentleman's comment on differential rights in the same establis...

Speaker | 473 c133WH (Link to this contribution) Before Mr. Mulholland gets to his feet again, it would be helpful if hon. Members—I have been lenien...

Stephen O'Brien | 473 c134WH (Link to this contribution) I have been listening very carefully. I would be very surprised if such an amendment came forward be...

Greg Mulholland | 473 c133-4WH (Link to this contribution) Thank you, Lady Winterton. I heard what the Minister said, but it is my understanding—I might be wro...

Stephen O'Brien | 473 c134-9WH (Link to this contribution) It is a pleasure, Lady Winterton, to serve under your chairmanship for this timely and important deb...

Greg Mulholland | 473 c134WH (Link to this contribution) All I can say to the hon. Gentleman is that MPs who were invited to the discussion with other organi...

Stephen O'Brien | 473 c140WH (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman advocates his position even better than I can, and I am most grateful that he was...

Andrew Dismore | 473 c139WH (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman has referred to the remarks of the Solicitor-General. In fact, I recall her sayin...

Greg Mulholland | 473 c141WH (Link to this contribution) I appreciate the Minister's constructive comments. I was probably not clear. I was trying to say tha...

Ivan Lewis | 473 c140-1WH (Link to this contribution) I pay tribute to my hon. Friend the Member for Hendon (Mr. Dismore) for his leadership of the Joint ...

Ivan Lewis | 473 c141-5WH (Link to this contribution) I accept that clarification and shall come on to that issue later. We have a problem with the defini...

Evan Harris | 473 c126-30WH (Link to this contribution) I congratulate the hon. Member for Hendon (Mr. Dismore) on the way in which he summarised the findin...

Andrew Dismore | 473 c124-6WH (Link to this contribution) I understand what the hon. Gentleman is saying. There are two types of complaints: those that can be...

Stephen O'Brien | 473 c124WH (Link to this contribution) I deal with the issue of complaints in my remarks. We had an extensive discussion on that matter in ...

Andrew Dismore | 473 c123-4WH (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman has made an interesting point. There was a Human Rights Act case that trumped the...

Ivan Lewis | 473 c133WH (Link to this contribution) Will the hon. Gentleman give way?

Greg Mulholland | 473 c131-3WH (Link to this contribution) I want to say how pleased I am to be contributing to the debate. I commend the Joint Committee's exc...

Evan Harris | 473 c130-1WH (Link to this contribution) I do not think that that is an argument solely about care of the elderly. Whatever someone's age, if...

Stephen O'Brien | 473 c130WH (Link to this contribution) I am following the hon. Gentleman's argument, and I see that he is using a clinical evidence base wi...

Greg Mulholland | 473 c133WH (Link to this contribution) How could I possibly say no?

Andrew Dismore | 473 c118-21WH (Link to this contribution) I hear what the hon. Gentleman says, and I think that that came out in the evidence. Returning to t...

Evan Harris | 473 c118WH (Link to this contribution) I endorse the concerns that the hon. Gentleman has expressed about the second two cases. I think tha...

Andrew Dismore | 473 c121-2WH (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman is right, and I proposed amendments to that effect, which I might mention in a fe...

Stephen O'Brien | 473 c121WH (Link to this contribution) Does the hon. Gentleman recognise that the Government had a chance to do just that recently when we ...

Andrew Dismore | 473 c115-8WH (Link to this contribution) As Chair of the Joint Committee on Human Rights, I am grateful to have the opportunity to introduce ...

Stephen O'Brien | 473 c122WH (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman may be aware that we have made a recommendation, and we hope the Government will ...

Andrew Dismore | 473 c122WH (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman probably goes a little further than I would regarding the wider impact on society...

Stephen O'Brien | 473 c122-3WH (Link to this contribution) We should focus not just on abstract training, which can often be quite legalistic, but on the pract...

Subjects

Care homes Hospitals Health services Human rights Hospital wards Hospital beds NHS Older people Mental health services Standards Joint Committee on Human Rights

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