Today, the House of Lords debates the principles of the English Health and Care Bill. So I’d like to ask its noble Lords, before they assent to this stage of the bill, if they can explain what those principles actually are?
What is it that the bill, in a nutshell, actually does?
Explaining that effectively was beyond the health secretary, with the government’s own MPs reportedly baffled as to why it was undertaking a massive reorganisation of the NHS in the midst of a global pandemic.
