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HANSARDHealth and Care BillWill the Minister give way?23 Nov 2021HANSARDHealth and Care BillAll Governments in the UK are expanding medical school places and trying to train more students, but that has led to a shortage of foundation places. In the first two years after…23 Nov 2021HANSARDHealth and Care BillI rise to speak to my amendment 82, which is on legislative consent if the Bill is used in the devolved aspects of healthcare in future. The bulk of healthcare—certainly its…23 Nov 2021HANSARDHealth and Care BillIt is not just that patients prefer to see a doctor long term. There are safety issues when locums in acute specialties move from hospital to hospital, particularly if they are…23 Nov 2021HANSARDHealth and Care BillI gently point out that surgeons do not just operate—we run clinics; we run endoscopy lists and colonoscopy lists—so it is not that they are only working one day a week. They…23 Nov 2021HANSARDHealth and Care BillHaving spent over three decades in the NHS, I know that this is not just about senior staff and what are called frontline staff. It is said, “We’ll protect frontline staff, but…23 Nov 2021HANSARDHealth and Care BillAlong with the damage to patients who trustingly go for such procedures, is it not also about the fact that when they go horrifically wrong, as sometimes they do, it is the NHS…23 Nov 2021HANSARDHealth and Care BillWill the hon. Gentleman give way?23 Nov 2021HANSARDHealth and Care BillThe Minister does not need to be anxious, because he has already heard it all in Committee. Does he not recognise that there is nothing in HSSIB that takes away from coroners’…23 Nov 2021HANSARDHealth and Care BillI am delighted to follow the Chair of the Health and Social Care Committee, and, in this rather unnerving outbreak of consensus and good humour, to mirror his speech and add my…23 Nov 2021HANSARD Health and Care BillIs this not one of the most important of the hon. Lady’s new clauses? As people age and die—events often driven by cigarettes—or perhaps manage to give up, the tobacco companies…22 Nov 2021HANSARD Health and Care BillI am grateful to the hon. Gentleman because that has saved me from having to put a disclaimer at the start of my speech, as I was rather shocked to find my name on his amendments.…22 Nov 2021HANSARD Health and Care BillI thank the hon. Member for North East Bedfordshire (Richard Fuller) for clarifying that I had not voluntarily added my name to his amendment. Whenever we talk about such…22 Nov 2021HANSARD Health and Care BillI agree that new clause 6 is the most important of the new clauses, because tobacco companies are driven to recruit new victims—as I would have to call them, as a doctor—and they…22 Nov 2021HANSARD Health and Care BillI would say that really no one who has a health problem should be stigmatised. Having dealt over 33 years in the NHS with many people who were problem drinkers, I know that the…22 Nov 2021HANSARD Health and Care BillThat is the policy of the Scottish Government, and we would absolutely support the new clause if it is voted on tomorrow. As Opposition Members have said, key to improving public…22 Nov 2021HANSARD Health and Care BillI initially want to touch on new clause 49. Like other members of the Bill Committee, I sat through hours and hours from September to November, and the Government have suddenly…22 Nov 2021HANSARD Health and Care BillThere is no question but that, after public health moved into local government—we can absolutely defend that because, as I have said, health is often delivered by things that are…22 Nov 2021HANSARDStrengthening Standards in Public LifePeople will know that, as a breast cancer surgeon, I have practised in the past while trying to maintain my licence. I remember being pilloried on the front of the Daily Mail for…17 Nov 2021HANSARDNazanin Zaghari-RatcliffeDoes the right hon. and learned Gentleman agree that the failure to pay an acknowledged debt creates a fig leaf for the Iranian Government to hide behind? It is not a matter of it…16 Nov 2021