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HANSARDHealth Bill (Second sitting)So you are losing a protection with the Bill. Sally Burlington: Exactly.16 Jun 2026HANSARDHealth Bill (Second sitting)Q Presumably, the obstetrician may need to be aware of previous pregnancies, but the patient may not want their current partner to know about them. Dr Cocker: Yes, and those are…16 Jun 2026HANSARDHealth Bill (Second sitting)That would be moving it on to a new system. Dr Imam: That is in a separate shared care records system. Dr Byrne: As I understand it, the architecture is not yet decided, so how we…16 Jun 2026HANSARDHealth 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 2026HANSARDHealth 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 2026HANSARDHealth Bill (Second sitting)Q Thank you. Sally, what would be the impact of the removal of the pooling of better care funding among local authorities and ICBs? Sally Burlington: The better care fund is a…16 Jun 2026HANSARDHealth Bill (Second sitting)Q Good afternoon, Mr Restell. When the NHS has been reorganised in the past, it has become more centralised or less centralised. Which do you think this Bill does? Jon Restell:…16 Jun 2026HANSARDHealth Bill (Second sitting)Q Good afternoon. Social care is one area that is absent from this Bill. To what extent is it possible to make the health service more efficient without tackling problems in adult…16 Jun 2026HANSARDHealth Bill (Second sitting)Q We have heard a lot today about things not being quite finalised yet; we are not quite sure where the destination is. Is it difficult for managers to be asked to transform from…16 Jun 2026HANSARDHealth Bill (First sitting)The question is, how do you find it within the way it is structured?16 Jun 2026HANSARDHealth Bill (Second sitting)Q That does not sound very good. The Government said that they were going to regulate NHS managers. What impact do you think that would have? Jon Restell: Our members have been on…16 Jun 2026HANSARDHealth Bill (Second sitting)Q 60 Good afternoon, gentlemen. My first question is to the NHS Alliance. In a survey published last month, your organisation found that two thirds of trusts and integrated care…16 Jun 2026HANSARDHealth Bill (First sitting)Q Good morning, Sir Jeremy, and thank you for coming to the Committee this morning. You are our longest serving Health Secretary and you focused much of your tenure on patient…16 Jun 2026HANSARDHealth 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 2026HANSARDHealth Bill (Second sitting)Q Does it surprise you that the Bill is being brought forward before it has been properly and completely designed? We have tabled some amendments to clause 47; I appreciate that…16 Jun 2026HANSARDHealth 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 2026HANSARDHealth Bill (Second sitting)Q Mr Blythe, what value does your council of governors add to your trust? James Blythe: Councils of governors across the NHS have added significant value since they were…16 Jun 2026HANSARDHealth Bill (Second sitting)Thank you. You are nodding, Dr Cocker. Dr Cocker: I was just going to say that we did do some exploratory work in relation to safeguarding, because that is quite a key part of…16 Jun 2026HANSARDHealth Bill (Second sitting)Q My first question, which is about specialist commissioning, is for James. Your charity is involved with palliative care for children. What effect do you think the changes in the…16 Jun 2026HANSARDHealth Bill (Second sitting)Q We do not have a plan of where we are going, but you have been asked to go somewhere. Jon Restell: Obviously, we have the 10-year health plan, which most people broadly see as a…16 Jun 2026