PATIENTS AND PUBLIC INVESTMENT: LOCAL GPS CONSORTIA

That this House is deeply concerned that the proposed Government Health and Social Care Bill offers little direction to either the National Commissioning Board or commissioning consortia to involve patients or their representative groups in local and national health decision-making processes, such bodies merely being obliged only to obtain advice from expert professionals, thereby denying in particular NHS users any meaningful role in the governance of their GP consortia; and calls on the Government to revisit this matter to ensure that meaningful patient and public involvement is embodied in the heart of such proposals.