I hope I can reassure my hon. Friend on that now, before my closing remarks. The right hon. Member for Leigh (Andy Burnham) did his best to conflate routine service reconfiguration, which should be clinically led in the best interests of patients, with those in extremis measures, which have been used only twice in five years. They were used only in circumstances of extreme hospital failure when patients’ lives were at risk. There is a clear distinction. I hope my hon. Friend finds that reassuring.
Care Bill [Lords]
Proceeding contribution from
Dan Poulter
(Conservative)
in the House of Commons on Tuesday, 11 March 2014.
It occurred during Debate on bills on Care Bill [Lords].
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