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HANSARD Future of the NHSI will not give way to the hon. Lady now. I have given way to her before. I will try to make progress, but if there is time I will try to give way to her. We have seen innovative…31 Jan 2022HANSARD Future of the NHSI will make a little more progress. If I can, I will then try to give way to hon. Members. More needs to be done, and we are giving the NHS the support that it needs and has asked…31 Jan 2022HANSARD Future of the NHSI will not, because I have only two or three minutes left. If I make sufficient progress, I will try to give way, but I cannot promise the hon. Lady. We know that different parts…31 Jan 2022HANSARD Future of the NHSI will make a little progress; if I have time, I will give way to the hon. Lady, with whom I sat on a committee of London councils when we were looking at social care reform way…31 Jan 2022HANSARDNHS Constitution and HandbookStatutory report on the effect of the NHS constitution and updates to the constitution handbook In accordance with the Health Act 2009, I have laid before Parliament a report on…27 Jan 2022HANSARDTopical QuestionsMy hon. Friend is absolutely right to highlight the impact of yet another of Labour’s disastrous PFIs on the funding available to our NHS, and indeed to social care. We continue…18 Jan 2022HANSARDNHS Capacity and Resilience: Covid-19I am grateful to the hon. Gentleman for his question and for the tone of his question. He is absolutely right to highlight the importance of the workforce. The workforce are the…18 Jan 2022HANSARDNHS Capacity and Resilience: Covid-19I am grateful to my hon. Friend. He is absolutely right that, in looking to meet the demand challenges imposed on our NHS, it is not just about district, general or acute…18 Jan 2022HANSARDNHS Capacity and Resilience: Covid-19Decisions on hospital reconfigurations and changes to local hospital systems are a matter for the local NHS, following full consultation and consideration of the needs of local…18 Jan 2022HANSARDNHS Capacity and Resilience: Covid-19I am always happy to take the opportunity, as I know the Opposition Front-Bench team and my colleagues are, to thank the amazing NHS workforce for the work they have done. I pay…18 Jan 2022HANSARDNHS Capacity and Resilience: Covid-19I think I heard the hon. Lady correctly and she asked when those discussions began. That was last year, prior to the peak of this wave. We believe that the use of the independent…18 Jan 2022HANSARDTopical QuestionsWe remain fully committed to the delivery of the important new women’s and children’s hospital in Truro for the Royal Cornwall Hospitals NHS Trust as part of our new hospital…18 Jan 2022HANSARDTopical QuestionsWe will endeavour to respond swiftly, but if the hon. Gentleman would like to meet me about capital funding for those sorts of projects, I am always happy to meet him.18 Jan 2022HANSARDNHS Capacity and Resilience: Covid-19Alongside measures to reduce demand and admissions, such as the vaccine roll-out and new therapeutics for covid, the NHS is creating the maximum possible capacity and investing in…18 Jan 2022HANSARDNHS Capacity and Resilience: Covid-19There is local flexibility to allow residents to be safely admitted to a care home during outbreak restrictions, following a risk-based approach that takes into account the size…18 Jan 2022HANSARDTopical QuestionsI am grateful to my hon. Friend. Public consultation on the reconfiguration in East Sussex was launched on 6 December last year and will close on 11 March. She is right to…18 Jan 2022HANSARDImplementation of Statutory Integrated Care SystemsSince 2018, Integrated Care Systems (ICSs) have been developing more integrated ways of working, bringing together NHS organisations and partners from local government and beyond…05 Jan 2022HANSARDMedicine Supplies to Northern IrelandUnder the Northern Ireland protocol (NIP), medicines moving from Great Britain to Northern Ireland are required to comply with the EU pharmaceutical acquis. This creates a number…16 Dec 2021HANSARDFood and Feed Safety (Miscellaneous Amendments and Transitional Provisions) Regulations 2021Following the end of the transition period, the Government continue to regard food and feed safety and standards as a top priority. This statutory instrument corrects and…14 Dec 2021HANSARDWest Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust: Publication of Independent Review ReportToday NHS England and NHS Improvement have published the report of the independent investigation to review whistleblowing at West Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust. This review was…09 Dec 2021