Saima Khan, Policy Officer

The Health and Social Care Bill will come under scrutiny from Peers in the House of Lords today. It is believed that if an agreement is not reached soon regarding the drastic changes to the NHS, there will be a continued delay in the Bill becoming law.Second reading debates usually last for a few hours but sometimes stretch over a couple of days. Once a decision is reached, the Bill will be passed on to the committee stage where peers will go through and examine the Bill line by line.