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HANSARDContingencies Fund AdvanceThe Department of Health and Social Care’s new cash requirement for the year exceeds that provided by the main estimate 2024-25. The supplementary estimate has not yet received…06 Mar 2025HANSARDMaternity ServicesIt is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Sir Christopher. I am grateful to the hon. Member for Chichester (Jess Brown-Fuller) for raising this extremely important issue.…25 Feb 2025HANSARDMaternity ServicesI will, but I will not be able to get through my speech if I keep giving way.25 Feb 2025HANSARDMaternity ServicesThe hon. Lady raises something very close to my heart. I spoke frequently in opposition about apprenticeships and the need for the health service to work on that. I actually…25 Feb 2025HANSARDHIV Testing WeekIt is a pleasure to serve for the first time under your chairship, Dr Allin-Khan. This is such a marvellous debate to be part of. The Secretary of State asked me to respond to it…13 Feb 2025HANSARDHIV Testing WeekI thank my hon. Friend for her comments and her great leadership in her work through the APPG. Some of that work looks very successful, and I will comment on it shortly, because…13 Feb 2025HANSARDHIV Testing WeekI thank my hon. Friend for that intervention. My hon. Friend the Member for West Ham and Beckton made similar points. The level of cuts to our public services and, by implication,…13 Feb 2025HANSARDNursing: Career Progression InequalitiesNo.11 Feb 2025HANSARDAntenatal Care: Vasa Praevia ScreeningI thank the hon. Member for that point. As he knows, I am always keen to ensure we share good practice across the United Kingdom so that his constituents, like mine, can benefit.…11 Feb 2025HANSARDNursing: Career Progression InequalitiesI know that this issue is close to my hon. Friend’s heart, after his years of service as a nurse in the health service. We have to ensure that the NHS is an attractive place for…11 Feb 2025HANSARDTopical QuestionsMy hon. Friend has been a strong campaigner on this issue on behalf of her constituents, and I congratulate her on that work. We are confident that the randomised trial will go…11 Feb 2025HANSARDTopical QuestionsI holidayed in my hon. Friend’s constituency this summer—it is a very beautiful part of the world—so I understand some of the rural challenges. It is a matter for local integrated…11 Feb 2025HANSARDTopical QuestionsWe are absolutely committed to urgent treatment centres, which play a vital role in supporting patients, especially during periods of high demand. I understand that this is…11 Feb 2025HANSARDStepping Hill HospitalThe hon. Lady outlines for her constituents what many across the House will recognise: the state that the last Government left the capital estate in. The autumn Budget committed…11 Feb 2025HANSARDHinchingbrooke HospitalThe hon. Gentleman has outlined the shocking state of some hospitals. I confirm again that we want a site-by-site report of those hospitals for exactly that purpose: to ensure…11 Feb 2025HANSARDNursing: Career Progression InequalitiesMy hon. Friend is absolutely right that the issue is key, and that the results are worrying. I know how proud my friends and family members were to become nurses, and what a great…11 Feb 2025HANSARDStepping Hill HospitalI thank the hon. Lady, along with my hon. Friend the Member for Stockport (Navendu Mishra), for her continued support for Stepping Hill hospital. I know that she is working hard…11 Feb 2025HANSARDAntenatal Care: Vasa Praevia ScreeningI am incredibly sorry to hear about Cate’s experience. We want to ensure that women receive safe, personalised and compassionate maternity care and that women with the condition…11 Feb 2025HANSARDTopical QuestionsI entirely appreciate the frustration and distress caused by medical supply shortages. We are working intensively with industry to resolve the HRT supply issues, and the problems…11 Feb 2025HANSARDHinchingbrooke HospitalI commend my hon. Friend on his research into the previous Government, and for the hard work that he is doing on behalf of his constituents. We are committed to the rebuild of…11 Feb 2025