Health Bill [HL]

The evaluation issue will come up in debates on later amendments, but I will touch on it now. We will, I hope, get an independent evaluator, an academic organisation. We are also looking for calls of interest, and I have no doubt that this will include not only qualitative but quantitative appraisal of the pilots from a patient’s perspective against the evidence base to which we referred earlier. Will patients be employers? The answer is yes; they could become employers, as I said earlier, with all the employment regulation that comes with that. We are not ruling that out of the pilots. Again, I hope that, through the pilots, we can learn not only from a patient’s perspective but, as I said earlier, through the staff’s perspective, a lot about employment roles, employment laws and staff training.