Contributions
1,850 recent contributions in Hansard
HANSARDNHS: Access to TreatmentsWe are looking at a number of different things when it comes to doctors across the service. One is clearly opening new medical schools in areas which are underserved: sometimes we…07 Sept 2022HANSARDNHS: Access to TreatmentsTo improve access to treatment, the Government have committed to spend over £8 billion from 2022 to 2025, and this in addition to the £2 billion elective recovery fund and £700…07 Sept 2022HANSARDNHS: Access to TreatmentsThe noble Lord raised a number of different points, which I will try to respond to. One issue is that, although we are recruiting more doctors, at the same time clearly there are…07 Sept 2022HANSARDUrgent and Emergency CareI thank the noble Lord for sharing that personal story—the good and bad side of it. I was on a visit to a hospital a few months ago where they showed us a nice, new scanner, which…06 Sept 2022HANSARDUrgent and Emergency CareI assure the noble Lord that we are aware of the situation; it is one of the reasons why this Statement was made in the first place. We know there are problems with delayed…06 Sept 2022HANSARDUrgent and Emergency CareI start by thanking my noble friend for sharing that very personal experience with us. One of the reasons why my right honourable friend the former Secretary of State wanted to…06 Sept 2022HANSARDUrgent and Emergency CareThe noble Baroness makes a very important point which noble Lords across the House will agree. We should pay tribute to the hard work of medical staff in our system of care; there…06 Sept 2022HANSARDUrgent and Emergency CareI thank the noble Baroness for the question. I am not aware of that report. If the noble Baroness would be happy to send a copy to my parliamentary email, I will happily forward…06 Sept 2022HANSARDUrgent and Emergency CareI thank my noble friend for his question. We have a debate this week tabled by the noble Lord, Lord Patel, on reform of the health system. One thing the noble Lord believes, as do…06 Sept 2022HANSARDUrgent and Emergency CareI thank both noble Baronesses for their welcome that I am still in post; let us see for how long. I pay tribute to my right honourable friend the former Secretary of State for…06 Sept 2022HANSARDIntegrated Care BoardsThe noble Baroness makes the point about general practice. One thing that we are looking at, which will probably come up in the debate later in the week on the future of primary…05 Sept 2022HANSARDIntegrated Care BoardsI thank my noble friend for the question. The last I was aware of—and I shall look at it and write to my noble friend—was that, under the visa scheme, we were looking to bring in…05 Sept 2022HANSARDIntegrated Care BoardsOn patient outcomes, the noble Lord is quite right: we need to look at the statistics—where we are doing well and where we are not doing so well—and then focus efforts at not only…05 Sept 2022HANSARDIntegrated Care BoardsI hope the noble Baroness will remember that, during the debate on the Health and Care Bill, there were concerns about private sector bias, as it were, in giving contracts. We…05 Sept 2022HANSARDIntegrated Care BoardsDuring the debate on the Health and Care Bill, which became the Health and Care Act, one of the things on which we agreed across the House was that each integrated care board…05 Sept 2022HANSARDIntegrated Care BoardsIntegrated care boards took over the role of commission and secondary care services from clinical commissioning groups on 1 July 2022. NHS England formally oversees these ICBs,…05 Sept 2022HANSARDIntegrated Care BoardsAs the noble Baroness will be aware, a lot of the work at the local level will be done by the ICBs, in partnership with others, under the ICS system. On the Government’s role on…05 Sept 2022HANSARDIntegrated Care BoardsOne priority of my right honourable friend the Secretary of State—I think he is still the Secretary of State—has been to look at the ambulance system. On a wall in his office, he…05 Sept 2022HANSARDIntegrated Care BoardsOne of the challenges that we all face, and that the system as a whole faces, is that, even though we have more doctors and nurses than ever before, demand is outstripping the…05 Sept 2022HANSARDIntegrated Care BoardsMy noble friend makes a really important point on this: if you look at the structure at the local level, you will see the ICBs, but they are in partnership with civil society…05 Sept 2022