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HANSARDNational Immunisation ProgrammeMy Lords, while the politicians may be distracted over the next few months, there is nothing to stop technical teams continuing to work on important tools such as easy online…23 May 2024HANSARDInflammatory Bowel DiseaseMy Lords, the Getting It Right First Time review that the Minister mentioned recommended increased access to endoscopy services over six and seven days and with extended hours.…20 May 2024HANSARDFolic Acid FortificationMy Lords, it is good to hear that the legislation will be coming forward in July. I am sure that it will have a fair wind, given the cross-party and cross-nation support. One of…16 May 2024HANSARDWhooping CoughMy Lords, Education Ministers have been very active recently telling parents to send their children to school with coughs and colds, yet the NHS tells us that the early signs of…16 May 2024HANSARDHealth Data: Research and AnalysisMy Lords, the Government deserve credit for supporting the development of secure data environments such as OpenSAFELY, but a lot of health research data is still moving around…15 May 2024HANSARDIntegration of Primary and Community Care (Committee Report)My Lords, I congratulate the noble Baroness, Lady Pitkeathley, and all the members of the committee for a very useful report on the challenges of integrating primary and community…09 May 2024HANSARDImmunisation: ChildrenMy Lords, I know the Minister agrees that it would help if parents had online access to their children’s vaccination records and, with his customary efficiency, he kindly wrote to…08 May 2024HANSARDInternational Health Regulations: AmendmentsMy Lords, objective 2 of the UK’s Global Health Framework says that the Government will: “Reform global health architecture, including through a strengthened World Health…07 May 2024HANSARDHomecare Medicines Services (Public Services Committee Report)My Lords, I am grateful to the committee for looking into this service, which is important to so many people, as we have heard, and involves significant if not fully understood…02 May 2024HANSARDNHS England: Ovarian CancerMy Lords, I recently looked at the prostate-specific antigen screening programme advice, which was very good and met the requirements that the Minister has set out. However, I got…02 May 2024HANSARDImmigration UpdateMy Lords, I cannot resist a buy one, get one free offer, so I want to come back in on the health and social care workforce, as we have this opportunity, and pick up one of the…01 May 2024HANSARDStatement of Changes in Immigration RulesMy Lords, my noble friend Lord Oates has done us all a favour by ensuring that we are able to have this debate today—a debate which, as he has pointed out to us, involves some of…01 May 2024HANSARDData Protection and Digital Information BillMy Lords, I want briefly to contribute to this debate, which I think is somewhat less contentious than the previous group of amendments. As somebody, again, who was working on the…24 Apr 2024HANSARDCovid-19 Vaccination: Coronary DiseaseMy Lords, there is one substance that we put into our bodies during Covid that has been clearly linked to thousands of excess deaths: alcohol. Are the Government carrying out…23 Apr 2024HANSARDCare Worker Visa RegimeMy Lords, there are accounts of care workers coming to the UK being exploited, as either the jobs do not exist as advertised or they find themselves in hock to middlemen. Does the…23 Apr 2024HANSARDMedical Student PlacesMy Lords, I associate these Benches with the condolences to the families of the noble Baronesses, Lady Gardner and Lady Massey. The Government, in their response to a Guardian…22 Apr 2024HANSARDNHS: Long-term SustainabilityMy Lords, I am very grateful to the noble Lord, Lord Patel, for this opportunity and for the reminder of the time of the coalition Government, which I think we might accurately…18 Apr 2024HANSARDCass ReviewMy Lords, if I could add to the Minister’s correspondence list, this is really following up the point made by the noble Baroness, Lady Finlay. Dr Cass rightly highlights that we…17 Apr 2024HANSARDMidwives: BullyingMy Lords, workplace bullying is particularly toxic where managers are involved. This is where non-executive members of the NHS trust boards may come into their own if complaints…16 Apr 2024HANSARDImmunisation: RSVMy Lords, will the Minister commit to making the vaccination records for new programmes such as RSV available through the NHS app from the outset? I ask this as a parent who has…16 Apr 2024