Long title
To make provision about The NHS Constitution; to make provision about health care (including provision about the National Health Service and health bodies); to make provision for the control of the promotion and sale of tobacco products; to make provision about the investigation of complaints about privately arranged or funded adult social care; and for connected purposes.
Summary
The Bill aims to improve the quality of NHS care and services and to improve public health.Key areas:
- Places a duty on providers and commissioners of NHS services to have regard to a new NHS Constitution, which will set out the responsibilities of patients and staff
- introduces direct payments for health services with the intention of giving patients greater control over the health care services they receive
- introduces quality accounts, which would provide information on quality for patients, clinicians and managers, with the aim of improving local accountability for services
- makes provisions to protect children and young people from the harm caused by smoking. These provisions relate particularly to advertising and sales from vending machines
- extends the remit of the Local Government Ombudsman to consider complaints from people who have arranged their own adult social care
- introduces a scheme by which prizes for innovation in health service provision may be awarded.
Sponsoring departments
Lord Darzi of Denham
Labour, Life peer
Alan Johnson
Labour, Kingston upon Hull West and Hessle
Current version of the Bill
Bill passage
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