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HANSARDElective Care Recovery in EnglandI am grateful to the hon. Gentleman for his remarks. He speaks often on this topic from experience, and it is right that we listen carefully to him. I take his point about the…07 Feb 2022HANSARDElective Care Recovery in EnglandThe hon. Lady makes a very important point, and I take this opportunity to put on record my gratitude to all those in general practice for the amazing work they have been doing…07 Feb 2022HANSARDElective Care Recovery in EnglandThe reason this plan is delayed is, as I have alluded to, the omicron variant and the impact it had on our NHS. My right hon. Friend makes an important point about our…07 Feb 2022HANSARDElective Care Recovery in EnglandI am grateful to the hon. Gentleman for his willingness to share with the House his personal experience in respect of his mother. I think that in doing so he probably speaks for a…07 Feb 2022HANSARDElective Care Recovery in EnglandI am grateful to the shadow Secretary of State. As he said, 2 million of those on the waiting list have entered that waiting list since the pandemic began. There is undoubtedly a…07 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 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 EnglandThe covid-19 pandemic has had a huge impact on healthcare systems everywhere. The NHS has performed incredibly, caring for covid and non-covid patients alike and delivering the…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 grateful to my hon. Friend, who puts his finger on an extremely important point. I believe that one in five in Wales is on a waiting list. This Government have put in place…07 Feb 2022HANSARDElective Care Recovery in EnglandI am happy to reassure the hon. Lady that our approach, and that of NHS England and Improvement, is designed to ensure that all hospital trusts can make progress—hopefully rapid…07 Feb 2022HANSARDElective Care Recovery in EnglandMy hon. Friend is right to draw attention to the huge financial challenges that trusts were saddled with following Labour’s PFI deals and I am of course delighted to agree to meet…07 Feb 2022HANSARDElective Care Recovery in EnglandI am always cautious to caveat any example with “subject to funding available and Her Majesty’s Treasury”, but I am always happy to meet hon. and right hon. Members to discuss…07 Feb 2022HANSARDElective Care Recovery in EnglandThe hon. Lady and I often exchange views across the Dispatch Box, and she always asks sensible and reasonable questions. She is right to highlight the importance of cancer care,…07 Feb 2022HANSARDElective Care Recovery in EnglandI am grateful, I think, to my right hon. Friend for his question. As I set out, it is important that this is the right plan and that it does the job for which it is intended. We…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 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 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 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 2022