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HANSARDHealth: MalnutritionClearly, education is a key part of this, and mental health is as well. As mentioned before, the root cause of people being undernourished is not their food intake but other…14 Dec 2022HANSARDHealth: MalnutritionLocal health and care providers are responsible for commissioning malnutrition services based on the guidelines to make sure that they can identify people who need help.14 Dec 2022HANSARDHealth: MalnutritionI am aware that we are working very closely with the devolved authorities. We worked with the devolved authorities on the regulations that we brought in recently, which were…14 Dec 2022HANSARDNHS: Agency Doctors and NursesMy Lords, demand for temporary staff supplied through staff banks and external agencies has increased. This is largely due to the increase in activity involved in our service…14 Dec 2022HANSARDNHS: Agency Doctors and NursesI totally agree with the noble Baroness: it is always better to invest in recruitment and retention, and that is what we are doing. There is no cap on the number of nurse…14 Dec 2022HANSARDNHS: Agency Doctors and NursesI thank my noble friend and agree that, in looking to recruit so many people, we need to consider every possible source. I mentioned the private sector earlier, and there are also…14 Dec 2022HANSARDNHS: Agency Doctors and NursesWe are trying to address every area. As I mentioned, in the past year alone there has been an increase of 9,000 in the number of nurses. We have to make sure that that increase…14 Dec 2022HANSARDHealth: MalnutritionThe noble Baroness is correct. I learned something in this process, which is always good, which is that malnutrition can be undernutrition or overnutrition. Some of the debates we…14 Dec 2022HANSARDHealth: MalnutritionI will need to look into that. I had the opportunity to speak to Sir Chris Whitty on this subject, given its importance. He related me back to an IFS study in 2008 that looked at…14 Dec 2022HANSARDNHS Industrial Action: Government PreparationsWe appreciate of course that these are difficult times. Unprecedented circumstances have caused the current inflationary environment, which we appreciate provides challenges to…13 Dec 2022HANSARDNHS Industrial Action: Government PreparationsI agree. Clearly, there are difficult choices; if we changed the position, we would have to take money away from other parts of the system, such as the elective care fund and…13 Dec 2022HANSARDNHS Industrial Action: Government PreparationsI thank the noble Baroness. On the other actions, so to speak, we have already met a couple of times with the union and are very happy to meet to talk about other things we can do…13 Dec 2022HANSARDNHS Industrial Action: Government PreparationsMy understanding, based on the long time that this has been in place, is that this is an annual review. April is now quite close; for that April review, it can take into account…13 Dec 2022HANSARDNHS Industrial Action: Government PreparationsI thank my noble friend for his question. He is quite right. As mentioned before, this body was set up in 1984 and extended to other areas of the health service in 2007. Since…13 Dec 2022HANSARDNHS Industrial Action: Government PreparationsI do not have those figures to hand, but I believe there is a Question on this subject tomorrow, when we will be talking very much about the use of agency staff and bank staff.…13 Dec 2022HANSARDNHS Industrial Action: Government PreparationsFirst, I will take the opportunity to thank the Armed Forces and anyone else who will be helping at this difficult time. I appreciate that that might cut into some of their plans…13 Dec 2022HANSARDNHS Industrial Action: Government PreparationsI thank the noble Lord for the question. Clearly, we want to ensure that there is as little disruption as possible, and appointments will go on as normal where possible. The…13 Dec 2022HANSARDFood (Promotion and Placement) (England) (Amendment) Regulations 2022My Lords, I thank the noble Baronesses, Lady Merron and Lady Walmsley, for securing this important debate to discuss the Food (Promotion and Placement) (England) (Amendment)…06 Dec 2022HANSARDFood (Promotion and Placement) (England) (Amendment) Regulations 2022I thank the noble Baroness and am happy to take that back. I hope that I have answered the questions. In all honesty, I cannot go into some of the details of whether there were…06 Dec 2022HANSARDInvasive Group A Streptococcus and Scarlet FeverAll I can say on that is that, clearly, that is not acceptable and we need a situation where it can, and that is why we should have inspectors. If we are using 111 as a backbone…05 Dec 2022