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HANSARDHealth and Care Bill (Eighth sitting)This clause inserts 31 new sections into the NHS Act 2006. It is the cornerstone of the integrated care board provisions, as it sets out the functions and duties that ICBs are…16 Sept 2021HANSARDHealth and Care Bill (Eighth sitting)I beg to move amendment 12, in clause 15, page 13, line 22, at end insert— “(ba) medical services other than primary medical services (for primary medical services, see Part 4),”.…16 Sept 2021HANSARDHealth and Care Bill (Seventh sitting)As I do regularly.16 Sept 2021HANSARDHealth and Care Bill (Eighth sitting)I am grateful to the shadow Minister for tabling the amendment and giving us the opportunity to debate it. Of course we understand the importance of reducing waiting times. The…16 Sept 2021HANSARDHealth and Care Bill (Eighth sitting)It is a pleasure once again to serve under your chairmanship, Ms Elliott. Government amendments 12 and 13 are both technical amendments that clarify the commissioning…16 Sept 2021HANSARDHealth and Care Bill (Eighth sitting)I can reassure the hon. Member for Bristol South. I fear she misheard me when I was saying that we were encouraging primary care commissioners to go further in developing primary…16 Sept 2021HANSARDHealth and Care Bill (Eighth sitting)I am grateful to the hon. Gentleman, and I share his view that it is crucial that integrated care boards co-operate with the Domestic Abuse Commissioner. I think I speak for the…16 Sept 2021HANSARDHealth and Care Bill (Eighth sitting)I am grateful, as ever, to my right hon. Friend the Member for Kingswood for his comments. I hope I can reassure him that the issues he raised, and the issues that he has aired in…16 Sept 2021HANSARDHealth and Care Bill (Sixth sitting)I assume—and the hon. Gentleman will probably shake or nod his head—that in this context he is referring both to the Care Quality Commission and HSIB— [ Interruption. ] Yes, I am…14 Sept 2021HANSARDHealth and Care Bill (Sixth sitting)The clause replaces section 1l of the National Health Service Act 2006, which sets out the general function of clinical commissioning groups, with new section 1l, which sets out…14 Sept 2021HANSARDHealth and Care Bill (Sixth sitting)I am pleased that I do not see any signs of the hon. Member for Nottingham North moving to the substitutes bench any time soon. However, my hon. Friend is absolutely right. I do…14 Sept 2021HANSARDHealth and Care Bill (Sixth sitting)The key focus for this amendment is what the legislation sets out in this clause, and that is the five positions—that is what we want to specify on the face of the legislation. I…14 Sept 2021HANSARDHealth and Care Bill (Sixth sitting)I think that all add value, but equally, in some circumstances, we see different local arrangements; in some localities, some people fulfil more than one role or sit in different…14 Sept 2021HANSARDHealth and Care Bill (Fifth sitting)It is a pleasure, once again, to serve under your chairmanship, Mrs Murray. I fear—predict—that there will be occasions when the shadow Minister, the hon. Member for Ellesmere…14 Sept 2021HANSARDHealth and Care Bill (Sixth sitting)I am getting my exercise today in bouncing up and down in my seat. Clause 7 enables NHS England to direct one or more integrated care boards to exercise certain NHS England…14 Sept 2021HANSARDHealth and Care Bill (Sixth sitting)I hope that I can reassure the hon. Lady. Although these organisations move beyond the CCG model to be much more collaborative, with more partnership working with local…14 Sept 2021HANSARDHealth and Care Bill (Sixth sitting)The clause, as we have touched on in the various discussions on amendments already, inserts new chapter A3 into the NHS Act 2006, which contains a number of duties and functions…14 Sept 2021HANSARDHealth and Care Bill (Sixth sitting)Clause 8 places a duty on NHS England to prepare, in respect of each financial year, a set of accounts that consolidate the annual accounts of English NHS trusts and foundation…14 Sept 2021HANSARDHealth and Care Bill (Fifth sitting)Amendments 36 and 37 and new clauses 20 and 21 are in the name of the shadow Minister and his colleagues. I do not believe that what is being proposed reflects the reality of the…14 Sept 2021HANSARDHealth and Care Bill (Sixth sitting)It is a pleasure to rise to respond. The shadow Minister, the hon. Member for Ellesmere Port and Neston, is now having to do a lot of bobbing up and down with his amendments, and…14 Sept 2021