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HANSARDBritish Heart Foundation: Tipping Point ReportI am afraid I do not have information on the number of deaths. I will investigate this. I can say that I am sure that we have all seen a great increase in the number of…08 Nov 2022HANSARDBritish Heart Foundation: Tipping Point ReportYes, the more that we can educate people to self-diagnose and take a stake in their own health, the better. Again, many of us now have Fitbits, Apple watches and so on, which can…08 Nov 2022HANSARDBritish Heart Foundation: Tipping Point ReportI thank the noble Lord for giving me the opportunity to state this. I should have done so the first time around, so that is appreciated. As he says, vaccinations have brought huge…08 Nov 2022HANSARDAmbulancesMy Lords, I am pleased to respond to this short debate. I reassure the right reverend Prelate the Bishop of London that ambulances are an utmost priority for this Government. We…03 Nov 2022HANSARDNHS: NursesTo be very clear, today, there are 29,000 extra, over the 2019 figures. That is more than half way towards the figure of 50,000. I will quite happily write to noble Lords so that…01 Nov 2022HANSARDNHS: NursesI totally agree. I am proud to say that we have 72,000 nurses and 9,000 midwives in training at the moment. There is no cap on the number of people who can join the programme, so…01 Nov 2022HANSARDNHS: NursesI have been assured by officials that there is not a cap, so my only thought would be that, if people are turned down, it is perhaps because they may not have the necessary…01 Nov 2022HANSARDNHS: NursesWith respect, the numbers I quoted are up to date. They take into account the overall increase. We saw 36,000 leavers and 45,000 starters in the last year, so that is an overall…01 Nov 2022HANSARDNHS: NursesI am very aware of the Nuffield figures but that 40,000 includes people who have gone back into other parts of the nursing profession. The actual net number as cited by Nuffield…01 Nov 2022HANSARDNHS: NursesThe plans are very much those that we are doing, which I believe are successful. As mentioned before, it is not just that the number of nurses has gone up by 29,000; we have seen…01 Nov 2022HANSARDNHS: NursesI totally agree. My noble friend rightly states that we have had a fine tradition, right back to the beginning of the NHS, of recruiting people from all over the world,…01 Nov 2022HANSARDNHS: NursesThe Nuffield study was very interesting: of the reasons for people leaving, 43% said retirement, 22% said it was for personal reasons, and 18% said it was due to too much…01 Nov 2022HANSARDNHS: NursesI totally agree that retention and attracting people into the profession are key. I like to think that we are looking at all these things in the round, taking into account the…01 Nov 2022HANSARDNHS: NursesWe welcome the Nuffield Trust publication and the spirit in which its analysis was conducted. Leaver numbers should be seen in the context of overall growth in the workplace. We…01 Nov 2022HANSARDNursing: RecruitmentThere is a long-term workforce strategy plan being put together, as I think we know, and that builds on the NHS people plan of 2020, which has seen this increase in numbers. I…26 Oct 2022HANSARDNursing: RecruitmentI totally agree with the approach. I have declared a personal interest before in that my wife is a dentist from the Dominican Republic who came in exactly that way, so I…26 Oct 2022HANSARDNursing: RecruitmentI do not think I can quite agree with the words “rip off”, but I get the sentiment. As I am sure we all have, I have been involved in industries where, if your employer pays for…26 Oct 2022HANSARDNursing: RecruitmentThis Government are committed to delivering 50,000 more nurses and putting the NHS on to a sustainable long-term workforce supply. We have set up a comprehensive work programme to…26 Oct 2022HANSARDNursing: RecruitmentWe appreciate that recruitment is an ongoing process, and while I think the whole House would agree a 29,000 increase is a good record—up 9,000 in the last year alone—we cannot…26 Oct 2022HANSARDNursing: RecruitmentIndeed, and towards that aim we have set up the nursing associate role, which is a stepping-stone to allow people to ease in and have qualifications on the way to becoming a fully…26 Oct 2022