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HANSARDHealth and Social Care…we have been putting in place changes to Care Quality Commission regulation to make visiting a fundamental right, a fundamental part of care and a fundamental standard of care to…12 Mar 2024HANSARDDementia Care in HospitalI am just coming to a close. I thank my right hon. Friend for securing the debate. I will continue my work to pursue the topics that we have discussed this evening. Question put…06 Mar 2024HANSARDDementia Care in HospitalI have very little time, so I am afraid I will not give way. My right hon. Friend the Member for Chipping Barnet talked about the social care workforce, another subject close to…06 Mar 2024HANSARDDementia Care in HospitalI sincerely thank my right hon. Friend the Member for Chipping Barnet (Theresa Villiers) for securing this Adjournment debate, and for her powerful speech. She really brought the…06 Mar 2024HANSARDUrgent and Emergency CareThe hon. Gentleman is absolutely right to talk about the whole health system. One thing we are doing as part of our work on urgent and emergency care is preventing people from…05 Mar 2024HANSARDSocial CareI recognise the challenges in the hon. Gentleman’s area, although nationally vacancies in social care have fallen by over 20,000. We are reforming adult social care careers to…05 Mar 2024HANSARDUrgent and Emergency CareI am not going to pre-empt the publication of targets for the coming year, but, as I have said, we will continue to learn lessons from the progress that we have made this year,…05 Mar 2024HANSARDAdult Social Care WorkforceLet us be honest, Labour has no plan for social care. Whatever the shadow Minister says, it is unfunded. There is no funding committed to it and it is not meaningful. Those of us…05 Mar 2024HANSARDSocial CareI thank my hon. Friend for his important question on concerns about the cost of care and how much it costs some people. As he may know—I remind him—the charging reforms were…05 Mar 2024HANSARDAdult Social Care WorkforceWe are grateful to international workers coming to support us in social care and improving supply, but we have to get the balance right between international recruitment and our…05 Mar 2024HANSARDSocial CareMy hon. Friend is right about the importance of the social care workforce: social care is its workforce. I can assure him that we already have a plan for the care workforce, set…05 Mar 2024HANSARDAdult Social Care WorkforceI work closely with colleagues in the Department for Work and Pensions on the recruitment of people looking for jobs in social care, and I will raise that point with my colleague…05 Mar 2024HANSARDTopical QuestionsI am very sorry to hear about what happened to the hon. Gentleman’s constituent. I send my condolences to her family and loved ones. Clearly, it is very important that discharge…05 Mar 2024HANSARDTopical QuestionsI would be very happy to meet my right hon. Friends to discuss those concerns.05 Mar 2024HANSARDAdult Social Care WorkforceCare is a skilled profession and I want care workers to get the support and recognition they deserve. In January we took the next step in our ambitious care workforce reforms,…05 Mar 2024HANSARDAdult Social Care WorkforceI agree with the hon. Gentleman that we are grateful to all who work in social care, including those who have come here from other countries to care for our loved ones. We also…05 Mar 2024HANSARDTopical QuestionsAs the hon. Lady will have heard me say earlier, we are grateful to international care workers who come to care for our loved ones in this country. We need to get the balance…05 Mar 2024HANSARDAdult Social Care WorkforceI am grateful to international care workers who have come to the UK to look after loved ones. Their work has contributed to reducing vacancies and increasing the supply of social…05 Mar 2024HANSARDUrgent and Emergency CareA year ago we set out a plan to improve urgent and emergency care, and the plan is working. Performance this winter has been better, with ambulance waits down by nearly a third,…05 Mar 2024HANSARDSocial CareWe are making great progress on our 10-year vision for adult social care reform. We have introduced the first ever national career structure for care workers, and we have…05 Mar 2024