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HANSARDHealth and Care Bill (Seventeenth sitting)The recommendation to introduce a medical examiner system was one of the strongest recommendations from the Shipman inquiry, and Shipman was convicted in 2000, over two decades…26 Oct 2021HANSARDHealth and Care Bill (Seventeenth sitting)I beg to move amendment 113, in clause 125, page 107, line 12, at end insert— “(2) Regulations made by the Secretary of State under any section of the Communications Act 2003…26 Oct 2021HANSARDHealth and Care Bill (Seventeenth sitting)Basically, clause 125 is just schedule 16 —there is nothing very much in clause 125. I sat on the Health and Social Care Committee when we talked about trying to tackle obesity,…26 Oct 2021HANSARDHealth and Care Bill (Seventeenth sitting)I totally recognise, as I recognised in my remarks, that this area is reserved, both as regards broadcasting and online, but obviously the nations consider taking different public…26 Oct 2021HANSARDHealth and Care Bill (Seventeenth sitting)I do not plan to press my amendment to a Division, but I encourage the Minister to put in the Bill the consultation that is required. I beg to ask leave to withdraw the amendment.…26 Oct 2021HANSARDHealth and Care Bill (Seventeenth sitting)I wonder whether the hon. Member, like me, is surprised that the opportunity offered by this Bill has not been used to introduce a child dental health programme in England similar…26 Oct 2021HANSARDHealth and Care Bill (Seventeenth sitting)I beg to move amendment 112, in clause 123, page 105, line 13, at end insert— “(f) after subsection (3) insert— “(3A) An Order in Council under this section— (a) which affects…26 Oct 2021HANSARDHealth and Care Bill (Fourteenth sitting)Does the shadow Minister agree that this relates to the whole issue, which we will come on to shortly, of protecting the safe space and the protective materials that go along with…19 Oct 2021HANSARDHealth and Care Bill (Thirteenth sitting)It is important that we recognise the different types of data. The clause is talking about anonymised data, from which we are looking at performance standards, outcome standards…19 Oct 2021HANSARDHealth and Care Bill (Fourteenth sitting)In clause 100 there is discussion about the response to the report, and that is crucial. If this ends up just being a job creation scheme within HSSIB, it will have failed…19 Oct 2021HANSARDHealth and Care Bill (Thirteenth sitting)I beg to move amendment 65, page 77, line 3, at beginning insert “Subject to subsection (3A),” This amendment, together with Amendment 66, would allow specified people and…19 Oct 2021HANSARDHealth and Care Bill (Fourteenth sitting)The Minister mentions the UK Health Security Agency, which was suddenly created in the middle of the pandemic—supposedly out of Public Health England, so I am not quite sure…19 Oct 2021HANSARDHealth and Care Bill (Fourteenth sitting)I want to raise with the Minister subsection (5), which calls on HSSIB to put out a statement on the issues that it is investigating with regards to an incident. However, that is…19 Oct 2021HANSARDHealth and Care Bill (Thirteenth sitting)I welcome the Minister’s constructive comments. Obviously, I am not party to the consultations that are going on. I am still disappointed that there was not provision for both…19 Oct 2021HANSARDHealth and Care Bill (Fourteenth sitting)A lot of this covers the issues that we discussed in relation to data, consultation and consent. I respect that these are UK-wide bodies, whereas data is within the devolved…19 Oct 2021HANSARDHealth and Care Bill (Thirteenth sitting)I should like to speak to the whole group of amendments because they all relate to one another—amendments 65, 66 and 64 are very much about the form of data, which I discussed…19 Oct 2021HANSARDHealth and Care Bill (Sixth sitting)Although this was described as an evolutionary piece of legislation that would not involve a lot of upheaval for the NHS, it actually does. It is a significant piece of…14 Sept 2021HANSARDHealth and Care Bill (Sixth sitting)Obviously, Dame Gill Morgan is quoted as saying that no one could evenly remotely think of setting up an ICS without primary care voices—and these other voices. Are all interim…14 Sept 2021HANSARDHealth and Care Bill (Sixth sitting)I, too, rise to support the amendment. This is probably one of the most important amendments so far. In the witness discussion, we came back time and again to which voices would…14 Sept 2021HANSARDHealth and Care Bill (Sixth sitting)Is the hon. Gentleman talking about clinical outcomes? One of the issues is having national clinical standards against which every unit and every area should be able to benchmark…14 Sept 2021