Future Of Patient And Public Involvement In Health (EDM2713)

Future Of Patient And Public Involvement In Health

EDM number 2713 in 2005-06, proposed by Andrew Lansley on 11/10/2006.

That this House believes that the design and delivery of NHS services benefit when patients and the public are fully involved both in decision making and in monitoring acute and primary care; notes the Government's intention to abolish patient forums, which it set up after abolishing community health councils in 2003, and replace them with local involvement networks (LINks); is concerned that LINks will not have powers to inspect and monitor the NHS on behalf of patients, will not have the credibility with the public that accompanies true independence, and will not have the networking capability to represent patients on a regional or local level; believes that the Government should reconsider urgently its proposal for the future of patient and public involvement in health; and calls for the creation of a new body with both a national and a local presence which would be truly independent of health and social care services and would have the power to refer matters of concern to the health service regulator, so that patients and the public are given a much stronger voice in decisions about the NHS.

This motion has been signed by a total of 32 MPs.

MP	Date	Constituency	Party	Type
Andrew Lansley	11/10/2006	South Cambridgeshire	Conservative	Proposed
John Baron	11/10/2006	Billericay	Conservative	Seconded
Crispin Blunt	11/10/2006	Reigate	Conservative	Seconded
Tim Loughton	11/10/2006	East Worthing and Shoreham	Conservative	Seconded
Andrew Murrison	11/10/2006	Westbury	Conservative	Seconded
Stephen O'Brien	11/10/2006	Eddisbury	Conservative	Seconded
Malcolm Moss	12/10/2006	North East Cambridgeshire	Conservative	Signed
Peter Bottomley	12/10/2006	Worthing West	Conservative	Signed
Andrew Stunell	12/10/2006	Hazel Grove	Liberal Democrat	Signed
Nigel Waterson	12/10/2006	Eastbourne	Conservative	Signed
Nicholas Winterton	12/10/2006	Macclesfield	Conservative	Signed
John Hemming	12/10/2006	Birmingham, Yardley	Liberal Democrat	Signed
Angela Watkinson	16/10/2006	Upminster	Conservative	Signed
Jeremy Hunt	16/10/2006	South West Surrey	Conservative	Signed
Philip Dunne	16/10/2006	Ludlow	Conservative	Signed
James Gray	16/10/2006	North Wiltshire	Conservative	Signed
Paul Holmes	16/10/2006	Chesterfield	Liberal Democrat	Signed
Bob Spink	16/10/2006	Castle Point	Conservative	Signed
David Taylor	16/10/2006	North West Leicestershire	Labour	Signed
Mark Hunter	17/10/2006	Cheadle	Liberal Democrat	Signed
Stewart Jackson	17/10/2006	Peterborough	Conservative	Signed
John Whittingdale	17/10/2006	Maldon and East Chelmsford	Conservative	Signed
Mike Hancock	17/10/2006	Portsmouth South	Liberal Democrat	Signed
Vincent Cable	17/10/2006	Twickenham	Liberal Democrat	Signed
James Duddridge	18/10/2006	Rochford and Southend East	Conservative	Signed
Peter Luff	19/10/2006	Mid Worcestershire	Conservative	Signed
Mark Lancaster	23/10/2006	North East Milton Keynes	Conservative	Signed
John Stanley	25/10/2006	Tonbridge and Malling	Conservative	Signed
Julian Lewis	26/10/2006	New Forest East	Conservative	Signed
Ian Taylor	02/11/2006	Esher and Walton	Conservative	Signed
Frank Field	06/11/2006	Birkenhead	Labour	Signed
Edward Garnier	06/11/2006	Harborough	Conservative	Signed

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