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HANSARDNHS: Doctor RetentionThe initiatives that I described—the two-year primary care fellowship programme, the new-to-partnership payment and the locum support—are retention rather than recruitment…04 Mar 2020HANSARDNHS: Doctor RetentionMy noble friend makes a good and fair point on return to service agreements. Service time for doctors was tested in 2017; the results were mixed and had a negative impact on the…04 Mar 2020HANSARDNHS: Doctor RetentionThe noble Baroness makes a very important point. It is clear that the lifestyles of clinical professionals in the NHS are changing. Many choose to take time off after their…04 Mar 2020HANSARDNHS: Doctor RetentionThe noble Lord makes a very important point on the importance of medical research to the NHS’s achievements. For this Government, though, the focus of recruitment is on primary…04 Mar 2020HANSARDNHS: Doctor RetentionThe noble Baroness’s figures are not exactly the same as the ones I have. Last year, 3,250 students were studying to be doctors; this year there are 3,500, and next year there…04 Mar 2020HANSARDCoronavirus (COVID-19)My Lords, this is exactly the type of dilemma being considered by SAGE and the CMO. It will be the focus of work between the Department of Health and the Department for Transport.03 Mar 2020HANSARDCoronavirus (COVID-19)Public Health England is leading the search and British scientists are playing an incredibly important role. However, the guidance I would give the House is from the CMO: the…03 Mar 2020HANSARDCoronavirus (COVID-19)The noble Viscount is right; I have also read the reports of sanitiser shortages. I wish I was in a position to reassure the House that we could somehow guarantee that there was…03 Mar 2020HANSARDCoronavirus (COVID-19)I reassure the noble Baroness and the House that we are clearly in the midst of a global pandemic, and nothing will stand in the way of the Government’s best efforts to work with…03 Mar 2020HANSARDCoronavirus (COVID-19)The noble Baroness is absolutely right to emphasise the question of diagnosis. I know from my own experience that the delays that people experience create huge anxiety and prevent…03 Mar 2020HANSARDCoronavirus (COVID-19)My Lords, there is an enormous amount of detailed information on the Public Health England website. I will be glad to forward the noble Lord a link if needed. I completely share…03 Mar 2020HANSARDCoronavirus (COVID-19)My Lords, this Government are committed to doing whatever it takes medicinally to tackle this epidemic. We will not allow regulations to stand in the way.03 Mar 2020HANSARDCoronavirus (COVID-19)My Lords, I thank all the other parties for their spirit of collaboration and support during this awesome challenge. That was reflected in the debate last Wednesday and is…03 Mar 2020HANSARDCoronavirus (COVID-19)My Lords, with the leave of the House, I shall now repeat a Statement made today by my right honourable friend Matt Hancock, the Secretary of State for the Department of Health…03 Mar 2020HANSARDCoronavirus (COVID-19)The noble Lord makes an important point. Polling to date has demonstrated that the British public have left the moment of complacency and are now seriously focused on this issue.…03 Mar 2020HANSARDClinical NegligenceMy Lords, when people are harmed under NHS care, the impact on their lives and families can be devastating. We have a clear duty to shoulder that responsibility. However, the…03 Mar 2020HANSARDCoronavirus (COVID-19)The noble Lord is quite right to raise the issue of airline staff, who are very clearly on the front line of this epidemic. They are in confined spaces and are sharing aeroplanes…03 Mar 2020HANSARDClinical NegligenceThe noble Lord is absolutely right; the total sum of money for claims on the liabilities book is second only to the potential costs of cleaning up our nuclear industry. He is also…03 Mar 2020HANSARDClinical NegligenceThe noble Lord has teed up a difficult question for me. The truth is that too often, as my noble and learned friend Lord Mackay said, the biggest payments are made in the area of…03 Mar 2020HANSARDCoronavirus (COVID-19)The noble Baroness asks a very important question. I do not know the precise answer but will be glad to reply to her later.03 Mar 2020