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HANSARDMental Health In-patient Services: Improving SafetyAs noble Lords are aware from some of my previous answers, I think the key thing is the quality of output rather than the ownership of an institution. Around the House, we have…03 Jul 2023HANSARDMental Health In-patient Services: Improving SafetyAs I am sure the noble Lord is aware, the second thing that the HSSIB is being asked to look at is exactly the point about how people are cared for as in-patients and how we can…03 Jul 2023HANSARDMental Health In-patient Services: Improving SafetyI thank noble Lords for their questions and their general welcome for the Statement. On timing, we had hoped that doing it on a non-statutory basis would have been sufficient. The…03 Jul 2023HANSARDMental Health In-patient Services: Improving SafetyI thank my noble friend for her tireless work in this space. We believe that a number of constructive points were made in the committee report, which I know Maria Caulfield is…03 Jul 2023HANSARDMental Health In-patient Services: Improving SafetyYes, we are very aware of the points made very well by the noble Baroness, including some of the stats on the community treatment orders and the fact, I believe, that if you are a…03 Jul 2023HANSARDLung Cancer: ScreeningI will start with a small correction to the Statement. It should have said: “We are investing £123 million in AI tools such as Veye Chest, which allows radiologists to review…26 Jun 2023HANSARDLung Cancer: ScreeningI thank the noble Baroness. In terms of identifying the smokers, the telephone is just one way of doing it. The hope is that using the digital data and the app means that more of…26 Jun 2023HANSARDLung Cancer: ScreeningI thank the noble Lord, Lord Kennedy, and I am sorry for the loss of his brother. I agree with his sentiment that while this is good news today and is welcomed by all, it shows…26 Jun 2023HANSARDLung Cancer: ScreeningI am sorry; I was answering in a generic format in terms of the new CDCs. The noble Baroness is quite right that diagnosis is one thing—and we all know that the early stages are…26 Jun 2023HANSARDLung Cancer: ScreeningMy Lords, with the leave of the House I shall now repeat a Statement made earlier in the other place by my right honourable friend Steve Barclay, the Secretary of State. “With…26 Jun 2023HANSARDNHS Procurement: Palantir ContractActually, it is the opposite. It absolutely lets bidders know that, when we are assessing who the best bidder is, we are looking only at who is the best provider. We do not need…22 Jun 2023HANSARDNHS Procurement: Palantir ContractAll NHS contracts are procured using correct procedures. This is a new transition contract with Palantir, with new and improved contract terms, including robust exit and…22 Jun 2023HANSARDNHS Procurement: Palantir ContractThis was a very sensible move to ensure that the tender process we are going through at the moment allows us to transition to whoever wins the federated data platform. That is a…22 Jun 2023HANSARDNHS Procurement: Palantir ContractAs I said, there is a very clear benefit. We are going through the process of a very large £500 million contract for a data platform that will be key to the NHS. Everyone agrees…22 Jun 2023HANSARDNHS Procurement: Palantir ContractThis went through the long-term plan in 2019, and the idea behind it all—it was debated a lot as the Health and Care Act went through—was to provide an approach which allows the…22 Jun 2023HANSARDNHS Procurement: Palantir ContractI thank my noble friend. This is absolutely about enabling innovation: the data platform is there so that providers can use it to innovate. We all hear about AI, and AI depends on…22 Jun 2023HANSARDNHS Procurement: Palantir ContractAs I said in a previous Answer, we are in the process of disposing of those contracts. On many occasions, it is easy to look with hindsight. Noble Lords may remember that, at the…22 Jun 2023HANSARDNHS Procurement: Palantir ContractI think I said that we wanted the best supplier to win; I will check and correct the record if I mentioned quality only. Quality is very important because the contract has to be…22 Jun 2023HANSARDNHS Procurement: Palantir ContractThe noble Baroness is correct: public confidence is vital, particularly in the case of data, where we are concerned about privacy. We are arranging a briefing of noble Lords so…22 Jun 2023HANSARDNHS Procurement: Palantir ContractYes. I really appreciate having this opportunity to state categorically that the NHS will remain the data user here. The data controller will remain in place for each individual…22 Jun 2023