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Health and Social Care Bill

Before the noble Lord sits down, perhaps I may raise two points with him from his great experience of the health service. First, is it appropriate for the fundamental provision to be an amendment to a statutory order rather than for it to be done through primary legislation? Secondly, on delegation, the amendment states that, "““a health care support worker shall be an individual whose work is routinely delegated to them by a registered nurse or midwife””." Could not a healthcare support worker have an independent assignment from the employer? In other words, it would be not be delegation from a registered nurse but direct employment on that basis. I would like help on that if possible.
Type
Proceeding contribution
Reference
736 c167 
Session
2010-12
Chamber / Committee
House of Lords chamber
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