Health and Social Care Bill

Page 240, line 7, leave out “may” and insert “shall”

Page 240, line 7, leave out “may prepare and” and insert “shall”

Page 240, line 8, at end insert “governing the collection, processing and dissemination of information.”

Page 240, line 10, leave out “in relation to the processing of information” and insert “for the efficient and effective collection, processing and dissemination of information that benefits the commissioning and provision of health and adult social care services, helps improve public health and wellbeing, enables the public to be informed about the quality and performance of those services and to exercise informed choice by ensuring maximum transparency of dissemination”

Page 240, line 15, at end insert—

“( ) An information standard must include a requirement to record patients’ preferred reading format: standard print, large print, audio or Braille.”

Page 241, line 33, at end insert—

“( ) the need for a publicly available independent audit of their processes in each 3 year period.”

Page 242, line 38, at end insert—

“( ) The Information Centre may charge the Board a reasonable fee in respect of the cost of complying with a direction given by the Board under subsection (1).”

Page 244, line 31, at end insert—

“(c) require any person mentioned in subsection (2) to provide it with any information necessary for the national clinical audits”

Page 245, line 14, at end insert—

“(9) The powers under this section do not apply to information which falls within Section 256(2)(b).”

Page 245, line 18, leave out “the following provisions of this section” and insert “subsection (3)”

Page 247, line 31, leave out “other”

Page 247, line 32, leave out “other”

Page 249, line 37, leave out “its functions” and insert “any function it has under or by virtue of any other provision of this or any other Act”

Page 427, line 16, at end insert—

In section 64 of the Health and Social Care Act 2008 (power of the Care Quality Commission to require documents and information etc. from certain persons) in subsection (2)—

(a) omit the “or” after paragraph (d), and

(b) after paragraph (e) insert “, or

(f) the Health and Social Care Information Centre.””

Page 427, leave out lines 27 to 31

Page 252, line 20, at end insert—

“( ) The National Information Governance Committee shall appoint a chairman from within its membership who shall report to the Information Commissioner.”

The above-named Lords give notice of their intention to oppose the Question that Clause 275 stand part of the Bill.

Insert the following new Clause—

Repeal of section 141 of the Mental Health Act 1983

Section 141 of the Mental Health Act 1983 (members of Parliament suffering from mental illness) is repealed.”

Page 259, line 42, after “duty” insert “or are otherwise in conflict with each other or at significant risk of being in conflict with each other”

Page 260, line 22, at end insert “or may require one or more of the bodies concerned to exercise specified functions in a specified manner”

Baroness Finlay of Llandaff gives notice of her intention to oppose the Question that Clause 285 stand part of the Bill.

Page 264, line 43, leave out “transfer” and insert “occupation”

Page 265, line 4, leave out first “transfer” and insert “occupation”

Page 265, line 4, leave out “transfer from” and insert “occupation of any property by”

Page 265, line 5, leave out from “23” to second “a” in line 7 and insert “or”

Page 265, line 15, leave out first “transfer” and insert “occupation”

Page 265, line 28, after “means” insert “—

(a) ”

Page 265, line 30, at end insert “, or

(b) a subsidiary of a company which is formed under that section and wholly owned by the Secretary of State.”

Page 270, line 24, at end insert—

“( ) section (health special administration);”

Page 270, line 34, at end insert—

“( ) Section 30 comes into force in accordance with section 30(3).”

Page 272, line 1, leave out “voluntary”

Page 272, line 3, leave out “voluntary”

Insert the following new Clause—

“Review of the operation of the Act

(1) Annually, the Secretary of State shall review the operation of this Act, publish a report on the review and lay the report before Parliament.

(2) If required by a Committee of either House, the Secretary of State must make available to both Houses of Parliament information necessary for the operation of this Act to be scrutinised.”