Health Bill [HL]

I am reassured to learn that the Minister has every intention of seeing that relevant information will be published on the NHS website, which is an extremely important outcome. I agree with him. I do not think that NICE is the appropriate body to look at this issue. After all, NICE was established to look at physical, psychological and pharmaceutical interventions in the NHS and to work out the cost-effectiveness of these procedures in order to determine which one should be provided under the NHS. It is not NICE’s role to assess quality accounts or their outcome. However, will the Minister give us any information about the proposed constitution of the National Quality Board, which clearly will be very important in undertaking this monitoring task of the quality accounts when they are published?