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Mr Simon Hughes 73 Schedule 1, page 69, line 3, leave out from '(a)' to end and insert—'( ) The members shall elect a chair from among their number.'.
Mr Simon Hughes 74 Schedule 1, page 69, line 5, leave out 'number' and insert 'majority'.
Miss Ann Widdecombe 33 Schedule 1, page 69, line 5, at end insert—
Miss Ann Widdecombe 34 Schedule 1, page 69, line 5, at end insert—'4A. The members of a Primary Care Trust shall not include—
Mr Simon Hughes 52 Schedule 1, page 69, line 5, at end insert—'4A. The number of persons referred to in sub-paragraph 4(c) above shall include a consultant in public health medicine.'.
Mr Simon Hughes 75 Schedule 1, page 69, line 5, at end insert—'In making appointments under paragraph 4, the appropriate authorities shall secure that a variety of skills and experience is available among the officers and other persons, (including experience related to the interests of patients and carers).'.
Mr Simon Hughes 76 Schedule 1, page 69, line 7, leave out 'chairman and other'.
Mr Simon Hughes 77 Schedule 1, page 69, line 10, leave out 'chairman and other'.
Mr Simon Hughes 78 Schedule 1, page 69, line 15, at end insert—'( ) the number of persons from the health professions who may be appointed as members of a trust, which shall include at least one representative of the medical professions, one representative from professions allied to medicine and one representative from nursing and midwifery.'.
Mr Simon Hughes 79 Schedule 1, page 69, line 24, at end insert—'( ) The Secretary of State shall consult widely in the relevant locality over the appointment of any member of a Primary Care Trust.'.
Miss Ann Widdecombe 35 Schedule 1, page 69, line 37, after 'members', insert, 'unless the vacancy is for the post of chairman, and provided that the posts of not more than half the officer appointees are vacant,'.
Mr John Denham 95 Schedule 1, page 70, line 46, leave out from beginning to end of line 7 on page 71 and insert—
(2) This paragraph does not apply in relation to the joint exercise of any functions by a Primary Care Trust with another body under section 16B(2)(c) above." '.
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Miss Ann Widdecombe
Mr Alan Duncan
Mr Philip Hammond
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Schedule 1, page 71, line 24, at end insert 'who shall be responsible for its publication.'.
Mr Simon Hughes
Dr Evan Harris
Mr Paul Burstow
Sir Robert Smith
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Schedule 1, page 71, line 25, after 'details', insert 'of all drugs, treatments and other health care services that have been requested by any patient which on any occasion it has been unable to provide on the basis of affordability and'.
Miss Ann Widdecombe
Mr Alan Duncan
Mr Philip Hammond
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Schedule 1, page 71, line 27, at end insert ' , including details of all drugs, treatments, and other health care services which the Primary Care Trust has decided not to provide on the basis of cost.'.
Miss Ann Widdecombe
Mr Alan Duncan
Mr Philip Hammond
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Schedule 1, page 71, line 27, at end insert ' , including details of the proportion of income spent on administration.'.
Miss Ann Widdecombe
Mr Alan Duncan
Mr Philip Hammond
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Schedule 1, page 71, leave out lines 32 and 33 and insert—'17. Every Primary Care Trust shall provide for the publication by the Secretary of State of—'.
Miss Ann Widdecombe
Mr Alan Duncan
Mr Philip Hammond
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Schedule 1, page 71, leave out line 40.
Miss Ann Widdecombe
Mr Alan Duncan
Mr Philip Hammond
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Schedule 1, page 72, line 12, at end add 'and
- (c) has been approved by affirmative resolution of both Houses of Parliament.'.
Miss Ann Widdecombe
Mr Alan Duncan
Mr Philip Hammond
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Schedule 1, page 74, line 33, at end add—'27. For the purposes of this Act, "Primary Care Trust" means a body corporate, established by a PCT Order, which is responsible for commissioning health care services with added responsibility for the provision of community health services, and which is accountable to affected Health Authorities for the effective discharge of all its functions.'.
Miss Ann Widdecombe
Mr Alan Duncan
Mr Philip Hammond
103
Clause 3, page 3, line 3, leave out 'not exceeding' and insert 'equal to'.
Miss Ann Widdecombe
Mr Alan Duncan
Mr Philip Hammond
45
Clause 3, page 3, line 5, at end insert ', including an identified minimum sum to meet the need for investment in primary care infrastructure.'.
Miss Ann Widdecombe
Mr Alan Duncan
Mr Philip Hammond
104
Clause 3, page 3, line 14, leave out from 'year;' to end of line 16.
Miss Ann Widdecombe
Mr Alan Duncan
Mr Philip Hammond
105
Clause 3, page 3, line 27, after 'that', insert 'such part of'.
Miss Ann Widdecombe
Mr Alan Duncan
Mr Philip Hammond
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Clause 3, page 3, line 46, at end insert—'( ) Every Primary Care Trust shall provide to the Secretary of State in writing within three months of the end of each financial year an estimate of the amount by which its prescribing expenditure would have exceeded its actual prescribing expenditure had it not been constrained by the requirements of subsection (1) above'.
Miss Ann Widdecombe
Mr Alan Duncan
Mr Philip Hammond
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Clause 3, page 3, line 50, at end insert ', provided that such directions do not have the consequence of reducing the availability of health care services to patients covered by that Primary Care Trust.'.
Miss Ann Widdecombe
Mr Alan Duncan
Mr Philip Hammond
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Clause 3, page 4, line 39, at end add—'(9) The Secretary of State shall provide regular guidance to Primary Care Trusts regarding appropriate levels of expenditure on research and development, training, and tertiary services.'.
Miss Ann Widdecombe
Mr Alan Duncan
Mr Philip Hammond
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Clause 4, page 7, line 26, at end insert—'( ) Where a Primary Care Trust informs the Health Authority that the level of remuneration will result in new restrictions on the availability of drugs, the Health Authority shall be under a duty to inform the Secretary of State who shall publish annually a full list of all such new restrictions.'.
Miss Ann Widdecombe
Mr Alan Duncan
Mr Philip Hammond
108
Clause 5, page 8, line 38, after 'services', insert 'or such other health care services or services ancillary to health care services as it sees fit'.
Miss Ann Widdecombe
Mr Alan Duncan
Mr Philip Hammond
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Clause 5, page 8, line 47, at end insert—'(4A) Charges may not be imposed by a Primary Care Trust in respect of accommodation, where that accommodation is made available for the purpose of providing NHS treatment.'.
Mr Simon Hughes
Dr Evan Harris
Mr Paul Burstow
Sir Robert Smith
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*Clause 5, page 9, line 20, at end add—
| ' "Inspection of premises by community health councils. | 18B. Community health councils may enter and inspect any relevant primary health care trust premises at such times and subject to such conditions as may be agreed between the council and the trust, or in default of such agreements, as may be determined by the Secretary of State.".'.
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