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HANSARDNHS 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 StocksI assure the noble Lord that it is indeed a temporary problem. However, it is likely the alert will go on for a little while yet, not least because, as I mentioned, we can benefit…30 Jul 2024HANSARDCoronavirus: UK DeathsMy Lords, estimates of excess mortality from the Office for National Statistics show that, between January 2020 and July 2022, the UK’s cumulative overall mortality rate was 3.1%…29 Jul 2024HANSARDBlack, Asian and Minority-Ethnic Women: Maternal Mortality RatesMy Lords, I first pay tribute to the noble Baroness for her work with the Muslim Women’s Network, and for her excellent campaigning to end appalling inequities in women’s…29 Jul 2024HANSARDBlack, Asian and Minority-Ethnic Women: Maternal Mortality RatesThe noble Baroness is quite right to draw the House’s attention to the important matter of sickle cell. We look to specialist midwives to assist us in this. I have been asked for…29 Jul 2024HANSARDBlack, Asian and Minority-Ethnic Women: Maternal Mortality RatesI pay tribute to the noble Baroness for her work promoting good health for women and girls, and I look forward to working with her and with other noble Lords across the House. One…29 Jul 2024HANSARDBlack, Asian and Minority-Ethnic Women: Maternal Mortality RatesI will indeed be very pleased to report back to your Lordships’ House on this matter. It is something that greatly concerns me, because it cannot be acceptable that women go into…29 Jul 2024HANSARDBlack, Asian and Minority-Ethnic Women: Maternal Mortality RatesI thank the noble Lord for his kind remarks; I am very pleased to see him again across the Dispatch Box. The duty of candour is extremely important in all this. Racism in this…29 Jul 2024HANSARDBlack, Asian and Minority-Ethnic Women: Maternal Mortality RatesMy noble friend is quite right: this is a cross-government matter. There are complex reasons why black, Asian or minority-ethnic people are suffering far worse than those who are…29 Jul 2024HANSARDBlack, Asian and Minority-Ethnic Women: Maternal Mortality RatesI can say yes to the noble Baroness on the second point, because if we do not listen to patients, we will not get it right. The Government are committed to training more midwives…29 Jul 2024HANSARDCoronavirus: UK DeathsI thank the noble Lord for his kind welcome and I hear his disappointment that it is not my noble friend Lord Vallance—who will be extremely flattered—answering. On the matter of…29 Jul 2024HANSARDCoronavirus: UK DeathsI thank the noble Lord for his informed observations. It is true to say that every Government were making decisions based on balance and that, with that, as the noble Lord said,…29 Jul 2024HANSARDCoronavirus: UK DeathsI thank the noble Baroness for her kind welcome. Of course, this was a decision taken by the last Government, supported by the Official Opposition. I would say that these kinds of…29 Jul 2024HANSARDCoronavirus: UK DeathsI will look into the noble Lord’s point and come back to him in greater detail. But, fortunately, we can observe at least that Covid-19 is now a relatively mild disease for the…29 Jul 2024HANSARDCoronavirus: UK DeathsI certainly do appreciate the point made by the noble Lord and certainly, as of April this year, there were some 90 adult post-Covid services introduced across England, along with…29 Jul 2024HANSARDCoronavirus: UK DeathsI can certainly assure my noble friend that we will be working across government to join up our approach because, as I have mentioned in a previous question, the complexity of all…29 Jul 2024HANSARDCoronavirus: UK DeathsThe noble Baroness offers some helpful suggestions as to areas that we can be looking at, but this for me all comes under the headline of resilience and certainly we are…29 Jul 2024HANSARDBlack, Asian and Minority-Ethnic Women: Maternal Mortality RatesI certainly agree with the noble Baroness that the maternity landscape is extremely crowded; there have been a number of reports and inquiries, along with investigations. I shall…29 Jul 2024HANSARDBlack, Asian and Minority-Ethnic Women: Maternal Mortality RatesI thank the noble Baroness for her kind remarks and good wishes. Certainly, all reports will be considered because we will look for what works.29 Jul 2024HANSARDNorthern Ireland Dentists: Amalgam FillingsMy Lords, on 19 July, as a result of constructive work between the UK Government and the EU, the EU published a notice that recognises the unique circumstances of Northern Ireland…22 Jul 2024