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HANSARDIntegration White PaperThese plans build on what we are proposing in our legislation. At the heart of the Bill are integrated care systems, which bring together at ICB level and ICP level the local…09 Feb 2022HANSARDIntegration White PaperThe hon. Lady will have seen yesterday the announcement and publication of our plan to tackle waiting lists caused by the covid pandemic, the investment that underpins that, the…09 Feb 2022HANSARDIntegration White PaperAs I mentioned in my earlier answers, this White Paper needs to be taken in conjunction with what we announced yesterday in respect of waiting list recovery, the September social…09 Feb 2022HANSARD Covid-19: Military Aid to Civil AuthoritiesIt is important that we take advantage of all opportunities in terms of those qualified professionals and their ability to support our more regular frontline services. To pick up…08 Feb 2022HANSARD Covid-19: Military Aid to Civil AuthoritiesI am grateful to my hon. Friend. He is right to highlight that, not least because of his role in continuing to argue for it and in supporting Dorset hospitals in that context. The…08 Feb 2022HANSARD Covid-19: Military Aid to Civil AuthoritiesIt is a pleasure, as ever, to service under your chairmanship, Mr Hollobone. I congratulate my hon. Friend the Member for West Dorset (Chris Loder) on securing this debate, and I…08 Feb 2022HANSARD Covid-19: Military Aid to Civil AuthoritiesI will address that point and then return to the military point. I had a very productive meeting with St John Ambulance in the past couple of weeks to discuss exactly that. We…08 Feb 2022HANSARD Covid-19: Military Aid to Civil AuthoritiesMy hon. Friend will have heard me set out exactly how we have done that with the extra investment in our ambulance services. That is the key—to reinforce the strength and…08 Feb 2022HANSARDElective Care Recovery in EnglandThe hon. Gentleman and I have previously met to discuss this issue, and I share his view on the value of radiotherapy in helping to tackle the cancer backlog, and more broadly as…07 Feb 2022HANSARDElective Care Recovery in EnglandThe hon. Gentleman makes a sensible and serious point. As I said earlier, it is about the workforce. Buildings and technology are fantastic, but it is the people who operate them…07 Feb 2022HANSARDElective Care Recovery in EnglandIt is always hard to prove a counterfactual, as my right hon. Friend will know, but we do know that the necessary measures we took during the pandemic to help to tackle this…07 Feb 2022HANSARDElective Care Recovery in EnglandI am grateful to my hon. Friend for his shout-out for his local hospital. He is absolutely right: we need to utilise the resources and the capacity of the whole system, and this…07 Feb 2022HANSARDElective Care Recovery in EnglandI can give my hon. Friend that reassurance. The clinical decision making will rightly inform the approach we adopt to the diagnosis and treatment of cancers, as my hon. Friend…07 Feb 2022HANSARDElective Care Recovery in EnglandMy right hon. Friend makes an important point, which was made by my hon. Friend the Member for Bridgend (Dr Wallis) earlier. I am sure that the shadow Secretary of State will be…07 Feb 2022HANSARDElective Care Recovery in EnglandSince the hon. Lady was elected, she has had a long track record of interest and campaigning on that issue. She is absolutely right to raise children’s mental health. Before I was…07 Feb 2022HANSARDElective Care Recovery in EnglandI am being open and honest at the Dispatch Box about the scale of the challenge and about the challenge for us in tackling it, and the hon. Gentleman is right to highlight that.…07 Feb 2022HANSARDElective Care Recovery in EnglandI am always happy to meet my hon. Friend. Following his election in 2019—a fantastic result in Ipswich—he was one of the first new colleagues I was able to visit and, with him, I…07 Feb 2022HANSARDElective Care Recovery in EnglandMy hon. Friend is exactly right in what she says. The whole purpose of these community diagnostic hubs is to bring cutting-edge diagnostic facilities to the heart of our towns,…07 Feb 2022HANSARDElective Care Recovery in EnglandMy hon. Friend is right on a number of counts: first, to pay tribute to the work of nurses up and down the country during this pandemic; and, to highlight the significant progress…07 Feb 2022HANSARDElective Care Recovery in EnglandMy hon. Friend is a strong champion and a strong local voice for Blackpool in this House. We are clear in this Government that in the investment decisions we make, we are…07 Feb 2022