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HANSARDNHS Continuing HealthcareI hope it can be. When we look at continuing healthcare and the assessment and service it provides, we will certainly take it on board.02 Sept 2024HANSARDNHS Continuing HealthcareI am pleased to take this opportunity to give great recognition to the role that unpaid carers play; they are absolutely crucial to ensuring that people get the care they need,…02 Sept 2024HANSARDNHS Continuing HealthcareI thank my noble friend for that observation and certainly agree that, in all these areas, it is very important that people understand what might be available and how they might…02 Sept 2024HANSARDNHS Continuing HealthcareIt is crucial that we provide the right support to children and young people. NHS England’s regional teams are working with local systems to explore the delivery of continuing…02 Sept 2024HANSARDNHS Continuing HealthcareI do understand the concerns raised by the noble Lord and agree that we need to take a close look at all these areas. I have already raised that with officials and with Minister…02 Sept 2024HANSARDNHS Continuing HealthcareNHS continuing healthcare fulfils a unique function within the health and social care system, providing support for people with the highest levels of need by fully funding their…02 Sept 2024HANSARDSocial Care ReformI welcome the advice from the noble Lord and I will resist using those terms, which I am sure he will appreciate. However, as noble Lords have already understood, this is not…02 Sept 2024HANSARDSocial Care ReformThe noble Baroness raises an important point about actually making it work, but certainly the fair pay agreement is crucial to professionalising the care service and, indeed,…02 Sept 2024HANSARDSocial Care ReformMy Lords, adult social care reform is critical to achieving this Government’s aim that everyone lives well for longer. Our vision is to create a national care service underpinned…02 Sept 2024HANSARDNHS Continuing HealthcareAs the noble Baroness is aware, the responsibility for this lies with integrated care boards and a framework applies to both adults and children and to young people. It is for NHS…02 Sept 2024HANSARDSocial Care ReformMy noble friend is absolutely right that there is no quick fix, and I think that is understood. The national care service, for example, is a 10-year vision, which will mean…02 Sept 2024HANSARDVaping Products: Usage by ChildrenThe noble Lord, Lord Foster, must have predicted that this is the very next point I am coming to; I am grateful for the warm-up. The noble Lord, Lord Foster, and the noble…02 Sept 2024HANSARDNHS Continuing HealthcareI thank the noble Lord for his welcome, and I welcome him; I hope we have set the standard on this first Question on the first day. What matters is that people are getting the…02 Sept 2024HANSARDSocial Care ReformI understand that, whenever there is a change in direction, there is concern. I take the noble Lord’s point. The inherited commitment to implement the adult social care charging…02 Sept 2024HANSARDNHS Blood and Transplant Service: Blood StocksI am sure that we could do better; that will be part of the ambition. That is why the ongoing campaign is focused particularly on those of black heritage, as well as younger…30 Jul 2024HANSARDNHS Blood and Transplant Service: Blood StocksMy Lords, there has been an excellent response from altruistic donors since NHS Blood and Transplant issued an amber alert for O-group blood on 25 July. I thank everyone who has…30 Jul 2024HANSARDNHS Blood and Transplant Service: Blood StocksThe lessons-learned exercise started from day one—we are not waiting for the end of the alert. The approach that has been taken is to increase the number of appointment slots…30 Jul 2024HANSARDNHS Blood and Transplant Service: Blood StocksThe noble Baroness is right in her observations. What I can say is that, while there has been a dramatic and somewhat sustained increase in the need for O-group blood, that is now…30 Jul 2024HANSARDNHS Blood and Transplant Service: Blood StocksI thank my noble friend. That is a very important point and I will consider it in our deliberations. It is worth saying on resilience that work was already in place—for example,…30 Jul 2024HANSARDNHS Blood and Transplant Service: Blood StocksThe noble Baroness is absolutely right that we need to encourage young people to come forward and to stay in the system. I have been in discussion with the chief executive and the…30 Jul 2024