Contributions
1,388 recent contributions in Hansard
HANSARDHealth Bill (Third sitting)It is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Sir Jeremy. First, I declare a number of interests. I am a consultant paediatrician working in the NHS, a member of the British…18 Jun 2026 · 2d agoHANSARDHealth Bill (Third sitting)Thank you, Sir Jeremy. I will be grateful if the Minister clarifies at the end, because she seems to be suggesting that Lord Darzi’s report was wrong in some way. He was assessing…18 Jun 2026 · 2d agoHANSARDHealth Bill (Third sitting)My hon. Friend talked about how the ICBs have merged. There are lots of different types of reorganisation going on at once: the abolition of NHS England, the changes to local…18 Jun 2026 · 2d agoHANSARDHealth Bill (First sitting)I am a member of the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health, a member of the British Medical Association and an NHS consultant paediatrician.16 Jun 2026 · 4d agoHANSARDHealth Bill (First sitting)Q Good morning, Dr Dash. What effect is the abolition of NHS England having on its current day-to-day functioning? What sort of number of people are working solely or mostly on…16 Jun 2026 · 4d agoHANSARDHealth Bill (First sitting)Q You wrote a report about the CQC that was not hugely flattering, and you have also written a report about the patient safety landscape. First, why did you choose to roll HSSIB…16 Jun 2026 · 4d agoHANSARDHealth Bill (First sitting)Q What about the risks of that—the conflict? Dr Dash: I do not see a conflict. I think they are complementary and this is all about improving the regulatory landscape in the…16 Jun 2026 · 4d agoHANSARDHealth Bill (First sitting)Q Sarah, the King’s Fund report said that the potential cost savings of abolishing NHS England “would be minimal in the context of the entire NHS budget”. Many MPs across the…16 Jun 2026 · 4d agoHANSARDHealth Bill (First sitting)Q Yes, although yesterday we received an answer to a written parliamentary question saying that the abolition of NHS England is causing no disruption to the development of new…16 Jun 2026 · 4d agoHANSARDHealth Bill (First sitting)Q Thank you, Sarah. That was also the view of the Darzi report. He said that it was “neither desirable nor necessary”. Jacob, what effect will the abolition of Healthwatch have on…16 Jun 2026 · 4d agoHANSARDHealth Bill (First sitting)Q The Bill requires that Healthwatch be abolished, to an extent, and that local authorities do their own inpatient engagement instead, but they do not seem to be mandated to do so…16 Jun 2026 · 4d agoHANSARDHealth Bill (First sitting)Q I should perhaps reiterate that I am a member of the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health. Dr Dickson, NHS England has responsibility for workforce and workforce…16 Jun 2026 · 4d agoHANSARDHealth Bill (First sitting)Q So, in essence, the fact that NHS England is being abolished, whether that is the right or wrong thing to do, will have an effect on the delivery of new services? Dr Dickson: We…16 Jun 2026 · 4d agoHANSARDHealth Bill (First sitting)Q I want to move on to the single patient record. Do you feel that general practice has had enough information about its role in terms of who is responsible, who is accountable,…16 Jun 2026 · 4d agoHANSARDHealth Bill (First sitting)Q I have one small question. Dr Dickson, even in paediatrics I have looked after patients who have ring binder after ring binder of notes. Clearly, when seeing a patient for 20 or…16 Jun 2026 · 4d agoHANSARDHealth Bill (First sitting)The question is, how do you find it within the way it is structured?16 Jun 2026 · 4d agoHANSARDHealth Bill (First sitting)Q Good morning, Dr Benneyworth. There seems to have been a bit of a muddle in how some of this has been expressed this morning. For clarity, could you explain how a regulator is…16 Jun 2026 · 4d agoHANSARDHealth Bill (First sitting)Q Earlier on it was asked what would happen if the HSSIB was rolled into the CQC, yet the problem with the healthcare was a failure of the CQC to properly regulate or investigate.…16 Jun 2026 · 4d agoHANSARDHealth Bill (First sitting)Q Another question that has been raised about independence is the choice of what to investigate. The Secretary of State can direct, but the impact assessment suggests that the…16 Jun 2026 · 4d agoHANSARDHealth Bill (First sitting)Q Earlier in this session we heard concerns that you keep some information secret. You have the safe space legislation in place. Does that improve or weaken safety? Dr…16 Jun 2026 · 4d ago