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HANSARDHealth and Care BillMy Lords, I am in favour of surgical excision. I oppose the powers of the Secretary of State in Clause 40 and Schedule 6 to intervene in decisions on reconfiguration of health…26 Jan 2022HANSARDHealth and Care BillMy Lords, we have been reminded many times during the debates in Committee of the aims of the Bill to improve the health and well-being of the population, to improve the quality…26 Jan 2022HANSARDHealth and Care BillMy Lords, the problem to which the noble Lord, Lord Warner, is suggesting a possible solution is the result of long-term underplanning and underfunding of staffing in the NHS, and…24 Jan 2022HANSARDHealth and Care BillI have my name to Amendment 93 and Clause 70 stand part. As the noble Lord, Lord Warner, just told us, Clause 70 is a bit of a mess, and having listened to the explanation of the…24 Jan 2022HANSARDHealth and Care BillI thank the Minister for his comprehensive response to this debate, which the noble Baroness, Lady Harding, suggested was probably the most important that we have had and will…24 Jan 2022HANSARDHealth and Care BillMy Lords, in moving Amendment 83 in my name, I want to speak to Amendment 86, also in my name, and to support Amendments 146, 170 and 171. Everybody taking part in these debates,…24 Jan 2022HANSARDHealth and Care Bill24 Jan 2022HANSARDHealth and Care BillMy Lords, it has been an excellent debate. We have heard about all the various kinds of arts and the effect of housing. We heard from the noble Baroness, Lady Morris, about sport…20 Jan 2022HANSARDHealth and Care BillMy Lords, it is a great pleasure to follow the noble Baroness, Lady Cumberlege, and I am delighted that her status has now gone up again because of her ennoblement and all the…20 Jan 2022HANSARDHealth and Care BillI am so sorry to delay the Minister again, but briefly. After we have pushed this Bill through Parliament, we will have an integration Bill and a White Paper and legislation on…20 Jan 2022HANSARDHealth and Care BillMy Lords, this is an enormously important debate because it deals with my favourite word in health and care: prevention. Prevention is so important because it is cost effective.…20 Jan 2022HANSARDHealth and Care BillMy Lords, I will also speak to Amendments 24 and 53 in my name. Amendments 22 and 24 are probing amendments about the time it should take to set up a new ICS constitution and who…18 Jan 2022HANSARDHealth and Care BillMy Lords, this morning the Committee has heard from the noble Baronesses who have spoken to amendments many good reasons why it would be helpful to the Government’s agenda to…18 Jan 2022HANSARDHealth and Care BillMy Lords, it is essential that the board have available to it the skill set that you find in people at the clinical front line. I was interested to see that, putting the…18 Jan 2022HANSARDHealth and Care BillMy Lords, I quite often buy things online and, a few days after the product has arrived, I often get an email saying, “How did we do? Give us one, two, three, four or five stars.”…18 Jan 2022HANSARDHealth and Care BillMy Lords, I feel honoured to be a fellow Member of this House with the noble Baroness, Lady Finlay, because of her professional and political work in raising this issue before…18 Jan 2022HANSARDHealth and Care Bill18 Jan 2022HANSARDHealth and Care BillMy Lords, I support my noble friend’s proposal for this simple reason: it would enable focus on the very particular needs of women’s reproductive health. As we heard earlier in…18 Jan 2022HANSARDHealth and Care BillMy Lords, I appear to have opened a can of worms. I very much welcome the Minister’s commitment to go back to his boss and talk about some of the serious issues raised by noble…18 Jan 2022HANSARDHealth and Care BillMy Lords, I support that. I am glad that the noble Baroness, Lady Thornton, introduced Amendment 34. According to the Bill as it stands, the chief executive of the ICB could be…18 Jan 2022