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HANSARDNursing Courses: Reduction in ApplicationsThe whole long-term workforce plan is supported by a £2.4 billion investment to make sure that we hit our ambitious targets. It takes into account things like apprenticeships: we…19 Sept 2023HANSARDNursing Courses: Reduction in ApplicationsAs I just mentioned, the whole point around nursing associates is to try to attract those more mature recruits as well. As I was trying to show with the example of my mother,…19 Sept 2023HANSARDNursing Courses: Reduction in ApplicationsAbsolutely. We are trying to adopt a modular approach so that you can have units that can build towards getting in there. For people who go into social care, for instance, there…19 Sept 2023HANSARDNursing Courses: Reduction in ApplicationsThe drop in nursing applicants reflects an expected rebalancing following unprecedented demand for healthcare courses during the Covid-19 pandemic. Nursing is still a popular…19 Sept 2023HANSARDNursing Courses: Reduction in ApplicationsWe are delivering on a number of routes to recruit nurses. Obviously, the graduate route is one route, which, as mentioned, is above pre-pandemic levels; apprenticeships is…19 Sept 2023HANSARDNursing Courses: Reduction in ApplicationsClearly, as the largest employer in the UK—if not most of the world—the NHS always has to be looking at the whole package that it is offering its staff to make it an attractive…19 Sept 2023HANSARDNational Health Service: Major Conditions StrategyAs mentioned, this is about looking at the whole patient, and that is why the ICB role in this, working with local authorities, is key. The environment in which people live is…18 Sept 2023HANSARDNational Health Service: Major Conditions StrategyMy noble friend is absolutely correct, in that we are setting out the whole emphasis of what we are trying to do here. It is really ingrained in those pathways. It is about…18 Sept 2023HANSARDNational Health Service: Major Conditions StrategyAbsolutely. The Government, and in particular my noble and learned friend Lord Bellamy on behalf of the whole MoJ team, fully support the noble Viscount’s remarks on the Powers of…18 Sept 2023HANSARDNational Health Service: Major Conditions StrategyThis is all about prevention—letting people understand when there is something not right within themselves and trusting them to know that. That is why the self-referral part of…18 Sept 2023HANSARDNational Health Service: Major Conditions StrategyMy Lords, the noble Baroness is absolutely correct. That is set out in the long-term workforce plan: a move much more upstream to prevention and primary care, of which community…18 Sept 2023HANSARDNational Health Service: Major Conditions StrategyThe strategy tries to provide a road map for how we want to do this. It starts with prevention, which I think we are all agreed on, then early diagnosis, quality treatment and…18 Sept 2023HANSARDNational Health Service: Major Conditions StrategyI thank my noble friend. I think that is covered by musculoskeletal conditions, which is one of the six major conditions we are looking at. Key to pathways is moving treatment…18 Sept 2023HANSARDNational Health Service: Major Conditions StrategyAI is a key point. Take stroke, which is one of these conditions. I saw a very good example in the Royal Berkshire the other day of what we all know as the golden hour, and the…18 Sept 2023HANSARDNational Health Service: Major Conditions StrategyWe are investing about 11% of the economy—£160 billion—in the NHS, and the conditions in the major conditions strategy account for 60% of all the causes of death and long-term…18 Sept 2023HANSARDNational Health Service: Major Conditions StrategyMy Lords, the Government are providing additional funding of £3.3 billion in 2023-24 and £3.3 billion in 2024-25 to support the NHS in England. The Government have not committed…18 Sept 2023HANSARDReinforced Autoclaved Aerated Concrete: HospitalsThe commitment to 40 hospitals is absolutely there, but, as noble Lords have mentioned, we have prioritised the seven RAAC ones—in fact five of those were new, while two were…13 Sept 2023HANSARDReinforced Autoclaved Aerated Concrete: HospitalsThree of those have already had the RAAC eliminated from them. The remaining ones are part of the programme and the commitment to have their RAAC eradicated by 2035, but in the…13 Sept 2023HANSARDReinforced Autoclaved Aerated Concrete: HospitalsIn every hospital—and Watford was one of the first ones I visited—there is a programme on which the draw-down of the funding depends; there is already a new car park there, for…13 Sept 2023HANSARDReinforced Autoclaved Aerated Concrete: HospitalsI hope and trust that most of us would think that it was sensible to prioritise the RAAC hospitals. That meant that we had to move some others to the right-hand side of the budget…13 Sept 2023