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HANSARDNational Health Service: BullyingThe noble Baroness is quite right. Bullying faced by those in the BAME community is more significant, and data supports that. That is why the NHS is implementing the workforce…03 Jul 2019HANSARDNational Health Service: BullyingI am afraid I do not recognise the characterisation set out by the noble Lord. One of the key characteristics set out by the former Secretary of State in his leadership was that…03 Jul 2019HANSARDNational Health Service: BullyingThe noble Baroness asks an important question. There are structures built into the NHS to enable those people to speak up. There is a “freedom to speak up” champion and a system…03 Jul 2019HANSARDAsthmaMy Lords, respiratory disease, including asthma, is a clinical priority in the NHS Long Term Plan , which aims to improve outcomes for patients through earlier diagnosis and…03 Jul 2019HANSARDAsthmaI thank the noble Lord for his question. I have met with Asthma UK on this issue. As an asthmatic myself, I understand the challenges of keeping up with medication, especially…03 Jul 2019HANSARDAsthmaThe noble Baroness will have heard in my opening remarks that we have put treating asthma and respiratory diseases as a key priority within the NHS Long Term Plan precisely…03 Jul 2019HANSARDAsthmaI thank my noble friend. She is right that we need to improve our response to those at high risk of respiratory illness. That is partly why we are improving our offer on mobile…03 Jul 2019HANSARDAsthmaThe noble Lord is asking me to step in and comment on matters that are slightly outside my brief. However, I am pleased that we have brought in the clean air strategy, which is a…03 Jul 2019HANSARDAsthmaAs ever, the right reverend Prelate is insightful on this matter. Children going into school with identified respiratory illnesses should have care plans to assist the school in…03 Jul 2019HANSARDAsthmaThe noble Lord will already have heard me answer his question in reply to the opening Question. I have already met Asthma UK on this issue and discussed its concerns about the…03 Jul 2019HANSARDNational Health Service: BullyingI certainly agree that charging those who come from other countries and use the National Health Service is perfectly sensible and appropriate, and by no means racist. I also…03 Jul 2019HANSARDNational Health Service: BullyingI thank the noble Lord for his question, which is a follow-up to a recent Question on this. This is exactly why the Government have brought out a manifesto commitment to tackle…03 Jul 2019HANSARDGP Services in Rural AreasThe right reverend Prelate is quite right. We need to expand the wider workforce to support GPs. One reason this has been such a challenge is the shortage of the wider workforce.…02 Jul 2019HANSARDAcademic Health Science CentresMy Lords, I thank the noble Lord, Lord Butler, for raising this question on AHSCs. I pay tribute to his work as the former chair and now non-executive director at the King’s…02 Jul 2019HANSARDGP Services in Rural AreasMy noble friend is right; infrastructure must be in place before there is an expansion of development. NHS England is accountable for ensuring that patients have access to a GP…02 Jul 2019HANSARDGP Services in Rural AreasThe noble Baroness is very lucky to live in such a beautiful part of the country, but she is right that rurality has a significant impact on health outcomes. It is considered as…02 Jul 2019HANSARDGP Services in Rural AreasThe noble Baroness is quite right. The digital-first proposals have been launched as a consultation so that we can work out the funding and contract changes to ensure that we get…02 Jul 2019HANSARDGP Services in Rural AreasI am definitely happy to look into the situation in Cumbria, but this is one reason we have increased the funding specifically to primary and community care above the rate of the…02 Jul 2019HANSARDGP Services in Rural AreasI know that my noble friend, who comes from a family of GPs, has personal experience of this. She raises an important point. We are encouraged that, in the last year, 300 more…02 Jul 2019HANSARDGP Services in Rural AreasMy Lords, primary and community care will receive at least £4.5 billion more a year by 2023-24. Incentives have been in place since 2016 to attract GP training to hard-to-recruit…02 Jul 2019