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HANSARDNHS Mental Health Patients in Private HospitalsMy Lords, I draw noble Lords’ attention to my declared interests. In view of recent press reports about a young patient who absconded from a private sector mental health unit and…28 Apr 2022HANSARDCovid-19: Vaccines and Further VariantsMy Lords, I draw attention to my registered interests. Is the Minister content that we are retaining sufficient capacity and infrastructure for testing and, in particular, genome…23 Mar 2022HANSARDHousing for Older PeopleMy Lords, will the task force be able to consider potentially adopting building standards that would facilitate accommodation for elderly people to ensure that management of their…15 Mar 2022HANSARDHealth and Care BillMy Lords, I declare an interest as a member of your Lordships’ ad hoc Select Committee on the Long-term Sustainability of the NHS. My noble friend Lord Warner has very clearly…03 Mar 2022HANSARDHealth and Care BillMy Lords, in thanking the Minister for having introduced so thoughtfully and elegantly this important suite of government amendments that address the question of inequalities, I…01 Mar 2022HANSARDHealth and Care BillMy Lords, I remind noble Lords of my own declarations of interests made in Committee: I am chairman of the Office for Strategic Coordination of Health Research, chairman of the…01 Mar 2022HANSARDHealth and Care BillMy Lords, I support the intervention by my noble friend Lord Patel. In so doing, I declare my own interest as a registered medical practitioner. The issue is a complicated one.…09 Feb 2022HANSARDElective Care RecoveryMy Lords, I declare my interest as chairman of King’s Health Partners. The Minister rightly identified that an important proportion of this increased waiting list is those…07 Feb 2022HANSARDLevelling UpMy Lords, I thank the Minister for taking questions on this Statement, and in so doing declare my interest as chairman of the Office for Strategic Coordination of Health Research.…07 Feb 2022HANSARDHealth and Care BillMy Lords, I support Amendment 264, in the name of the noble Lord, Lord Hunt of Kings Heath, to which I have added my name. In so doing, I remind noble Lords of my own interests,…26 Jan 2022HANSARDHealth and Care BillMy Lords, I support Amendment 173 in the name of the noble Baroness, Lady Merron, to which I have added my name, and I broadly support the amendments in this group. Many noble…24 Jan 2022HANSARDHealth and Care BillMy Lords, I thank the noble Baroness, Lady McIntosh of Pickering, and the noble Lord, Lord Sharkey, for the thoughtful way in which they introduced the amendments in this group to…24 Jan 2022HANSARDHealth and Care BillMy Lords, I intervene briefly to support the amendment moved by my noble friend Lady Finlay. In so doing, I would like to put a question to the Minister. In the context of…18 Jan 2022HANSARDHealth and Care BillMy Lords, I rise to support the amendment in the name of my noble friend Mawson and others, and in so doing congratulate him on his thoughtful introduction. It is clear that one…18 Jan 2022HANSARDHealth and Care BillMy Lords, I first join other noble Lords in thanking the noble Baroness, Lady Thornton, for the thoughtful way in which she introduced this group of amendments. I support…13 Jan 2022HANSARDHealth and Care BillMy Lords, I support the objectives of this group of very important amendments. In so doing, I remind noble Lords of my interests as chairman of the King’s Fund and of King’s…11 Jan 2022HANSARDMedical Schools: Training PlacesMy Lords, I draw attention to my registered interests. Does the Minister accept that long-term workforce planning requires an effective apparatus that is able to understand the…13 Dec 2021HANSARDCovid-19 UpdateMy Lords, the Minister rightly made the point that two variants will shortly be circulating in high volume—the delta and omicron variants. Is he content that there is sufficient…08 Dec 2021HANSARDNHS: Elective and Cancer Care BacklogMy Lords, I draw attention to my registered interests. Is the Minister content that the NHS has a workforce strategy sufficiently robust to ensure that the extra funds provided…07 Dec 2021HANSARDHealth and Care BillMy Lords, I thank the Minister for the thoughtful way in which he introduced this Bill and draw attention to my own register of interests, in particular the fact that I am…07 Dec 2021