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HANSARDHealth and Care Bill (Twenty First sitting)It is a pleasure to see you in the Chair, Ms Elliott. I rise briefly to support my hon. Friend and echo everything he has said. I have spent a great deal of my time in this place…28 Oct 2021HANSARDHealth and Care Bill (Nineteeth sitting)I beg to move, That the clause be read a Second time. At the risk of my career, I am again trying to be helpful to the Government. During the debate, we have come round in a…27 Oct 2021HANSARDHealth and Care Bill (Eighteenth sitting)I am grateful to the Minister. I was going to—27 Oct 2021HANSARDHealth and Care Bill (Nineteeth sitting)I am afraid that these bodies have not proven themselves good at doing that, and it is not good to have them police themselves, so we need to progress the debate. On the…27 Oct 2021HANSARDHealth and Care Bill (Nineteeth sitting)I thank the hon. Lady for her intervention, and I do not disagree. The terms are bandied around and people often do not know what we mean by them, which is why, without going back…27 Oct 2021HANSARDHealth and Care Bill (Nineteeth sitting)It is a pleasure to see you in the Chair, Mr McCabe. I am grateful for the Minister’s comments, but I am a bit disappointed. The Minister basically set out what was already…27 Oct 2021HANSARDHealth and Care Bill (Eighteenth sitting)I beg to move, That the clause be read a Second time. It is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Mrs Murray. I think I tabled these new clauses back in August; recalling…27 Oct 2021HANSARDHealth and Care Bill (Nineteeth sitting)I am grateful for the Minister’s comments. I will not press the new clause to a Division, but I hope to see this matter further debated during the passage of the Bill. I say…27 Oct 2021HANSARDHealth and Care Bill (Sixteenth sitting)I am a member of the Select Committee on Public Administration and Constitutional Affairs, which oversees the ombudsman. The Minister will be aware of correspondence between the…26 Oct 2021HANSARDHealth and Care Bill (Sixteenth sitting)My point concerns the practical implementation, given the examples where the organisations currently do not work together or share, and the issues about real accountability. I…26 Oct 2021HANSARDHealth and Care Bill (Seventeenth sitting)I would like to live in the Minister’s world sometimes. What I am struggling to understand from him before he finishes—26 Oct 2021HANSARDHealth and Care Bill (Seventeenth sitting)It looked like he was finishing. My hon. Friend the Member for Ellesmere Port and Neston referred to the suboptimal collection of payments in the health service where they are…26 Oct 2021HANSARDNHS England Funding: Announcement to MediaThe waiting lists are now the longest we have ever seen, plus there are the 7 million people who did not come forward during the pandemic. That means that the validation of the…25 Oct 2021HANSARDWorld Menopause MonthMy hon. Friend is making excellent points. I first encountered the issue as a young woman writing a draft women’s strategy for a regional health authority in 1989, in which it did…21 Oct 2021HANSARDCovid-19 UpdateI have been part of the Bristol health and care system for some two decades, and I have never quite seen it like this, and neither has anyone else. I want to ask the Minister…21 Oct 2021HANSARDHealth and Care Bill (Fourteenth sitting)I am grateful for that clarification, but I believe—perhaps the Minister will comment—that that makes the comments from my hon. Friend the Member for Nottingham North about…19 Oct 2021HANSARDHealth and Care Bill (Thirteenth sitting)Unfortunately, Mr Bone, you missed our last sitting, in which I relayed to other Members my long career in the NHS and my experience on these matters, but I will start in the…19 Oct 2021HANSARDHealth and Care Bill (Fourteenth sitting)It is a pleasure to see you in the Chair, Ms Elliott. I would like to address some comments to schedule 13, following on from my hon. Friend the Member for Ellesmere Port and…19 Oct 2021HANSARDHealth and Care Bill (Eleventh sitting)There is a lot of drawing up of complicated documents and costings and then a lot of complicated consultation and decisions on whether the Secretary of State will or will not…23 Sept 2021HANSARDHealth and Care Bill (Twelfth sitting)It is a pleasure to see you in the Chair this afternoon, Mr McCabe. You missed the start of an exciting debate about the NHS payment system; I am sure you are grateful not to miss…23 Sept 2021