Health and Social Care Bill

20: After Clause 2, insert the following new Clause— ““The Secretary of State’s duty to ensure transparency After section 1A of the National Health Service Act 2006 insert— ““1B Duty to ensure transparency The Secretary of State must act with a view to securing— (a) that any persons providing health services should provide, within as short a period as possible, full information to patients, their carers or representative about any incident or omission in or affecting their care which may have caused harm, or may in the future cause harm, (b) that regulations are introduced to enable the Care Quality Commission to take action against a registered person or body who fail to disclose details of such incidents as set out in those regulations.””””