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HANSARDHealth and Care Bill (Eighth sitting)I rise to support the comments that were made earlier. I had indicated to the Minister that I would raise the issue about stating very clearly that the terms “care” and…16 Sept 2021HANSARDHealth and Care Bill (Eighth sitting)Thank you. Question put and agreed to. Clause 15, as amended, ordered to stand part of the Bill. Clause 16 Commissioning primary care services etc Question proposed, That the…16 Sept 2021HANSARDHealth and Care Bill (Eighth sitting)I rise to support my hon. Friend the Member for Nottingham North, who made an excellent case for amendments 28 and 29. While on a primary care trust board, I commissioned APMS…16 Sept 2021HANSARDHealth and Care Bill (Eighth sitting)It is not a negotiation that anyone looks forward to with relish, but we need to take a good, strong look at the model now. This policy is not the route, and my hon. Friend the…16 Sept 2021HANSARDHealth and Care Bill (Eighth sitting)Just to be clear—my apologies for mishearing the Minister previously—such closures are a sign of failure. The answer is to negotiate the contract better and to modernise a clear…16 Sept 2021HANSARDHealth and Care Bill (Eighth sitting)I will not repeat my comments of the other day with respect to an amendment that suddenly disappeared from the amendment paper without my noticing. The point I was making was that…16 Sept 2021HANSARDHealth and Care Bill (Eighth sitting)I rise to support my hon. Friend. We have rightly criticised much of what has happened in the last few years, but we should also remember that some amazing partnerships and…16 Sept 2021HANSARDHealth and Care Bill (Eighth sitting)Will the Minister share with us what he thinks the difference is between ICPs and health and wellbeing boards?16 Sept 2021HANSARDHealth and Care Bill (Eighth sitting)I echo my hon. Friend’s words. The Minister is going to have to go back to the drawing board on this, although I can see what the clauses are trying to do. Financial directors I…16 Sept 2021HANSARDHealth and Care Bill (Seventh sitting)I offer my support to my hon. Friend and agree with everything he said. There may be a response from the Minister, although I do not know what he will say, but there is some…16 Sept 2021HANSARDHealth and Care Bill (Seventh sitting)I beg to move amendment 17, in schedule 2, page 124, line 14, at end insert— “(7) An integrated care board may enter into an externally financed development agreement in respect…16 Sept 2021HANSARDHealth and Care Bill (Sixth sitting)I hear what the Minister is saying, but on that basis—I think this is fundamental to all of this—why would we have local authorities or unitary authorities making any sorts of…14 Sept 2021HANSARDHealth and Care Bill (Sixth sitting)I rise to support the amendment, particularly in relation to outcomes. The Government do not accept having reducing health inequalities as an aim. In my round-up of 20 years of…14 Sept 2021HANSARDHealth and Care Bill (Sixth sitting)Will the Minister give way?14 Sept 2021HANSARDHealth and Care Bill (Fifth sitting)I echo the comments of my hon. Friend the Member for Ellesmere Port and Neston. The mandate is important. It is awaited by clinicians and managers in the health service as it…14 Sept 2021HANSARDHealth and Care Bill (Sixth sitting)My hon. Friend makes an interesting point about asymmetrical power and who does what. I may differ slightly, in that I think that that may suit local circumstances, but the…14 Sept 2021HANSARDHealth and Care Bill (Sixth sitting)Further to those points about clarity around the exercising of powers, the move to give NHS England that power is entirely sensible. The medical, dental, ophthalmic and…14 Sept 2021HANSARDHealth and Care Bill (Fifth sitting)I concur with the comments of the hon. Member for Central Ayrshire and my hon. Friend the Member for Nottingham North. The hon. Lady referenced the Black report, which first got…14 Sept 2021HANSARDHealth and Care Bill (Fifth sitting)I support the words of my hon. Friend the Member for Ellesmere Port and Neston. The Government would be wise to take note of the proposal. As my hon. Friend said, many hours, days…14 Sept 2021HANSARDHealth and Care Bill (Sixth sitting)I completely agree and, as I said, in that sense it has been refreshing to talk to financial directors locally. People who go to be finance directors in NHS organisations have…14 Sept 2021