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HANSARDUnavoidably Small HospitalsI am happy to write to all colleagues on that. It is important to understand the difference that that formula will make and to assess whether it is working in practice, and…06 Sept 2022HANSARDUnavoidably Small HospitalsIt is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Mr Hollobone. I thank my hon. Friend the Member for Isle of Wight (Bob Seely) for securing this really important debate. Small…06 Sept 2022HANSARDTopical QuestionsI thank my hon. Friend for all her hard work campaigning on pregnancy and baby loss. We will publish the women’s health strategy shortly. Baby loss featured heavily in the call…19 Jul 2022HANSARDUnusable PPETo put this in context, I make no apologies for all the efforts that were made to secure PPE for frontline staff. We delivered more than 21.5 billion items of PPE to keep…19 Jul 2022HANSARDUnusable PPEI am very interested to hear from the hon. Lady, because according to The Herald on Sunday recently, half a billion pounds-worth of procurement in Scotland during the pandemic did…19 Jul 2022HANSARDTreatment and Care Innovation: NHS PatientsI thank the hon. Lady, because it is the first I have heard of that and it sounds very exciting. I know how difficult it is with chronic wound management to get wounds to heal.…19 Jul 2022HANSARDTreatment and Care Innovation: NHS PatientsThe NHS has made significant progress in recent years in embracing innovations, from the NHS app where patients can now access their medical records, to the expansion of…19 Jul 2022HANSARDEmergency Care: Average Waiting TimeThe hon. Lady says there is no excuse for missing those waiting times, but perhaps she can explain why the Labour Government in Wales are also missing those times.19 Jul 2022HANSARDEmergency Care: Average Waiting TimeI say gently to the hon. Lady, who does amazing work on the frontline in A&E, that I have worked in A&E under the last Labour Government—I am showing my age now—and there were…19 Jul 2022HANSARDEmergency Care: Average Waiting TimeMy hon. Friend is right; the delayed discharges and being able to free up those beds has a knock-on effect on A&E, which in turn has a knock-on effect on ambulances being able to…19 Jul 2022HANSARDEmergency Care: Average Waiting TimeLet me place on record my thanks to all the ambulance staff up and down the country who have gone above and beyond in the past 24 to 48 hours to be able to respond to extreme…19 Jul 2022HANSARDEmergency Care: Average Waiting TimeI am very sad to hear of the experience of my hon. Friend’s constituent and he is right to say that emergency services need to be able to access public areas. I am happy to talk…19 Jul 2022HANSARDEmergency Care: Average Waiting TimeThe west midlands is more affected than many regions of the ambulance service. There are a number of causes, the first of which is that we are living with covid, which has not…19 Jul 2022HANSARDEmergency Care: Average Waiting TimeNHS Digital publishes information on average waiting times, and the data for May shows that the median average total time spent in A&E for all patients was three hours and six…19 Jul 2022HANSARDUnusable PPEAround 3% of PPE that the Department purchased was unusable. We are working to dispose of this unusable stock in the most environmentally friendly way.19 Jul 2022HANSARDNet ZeroI think we can do both. We have already reduced emissions in the NHS by 30%, and there are a number of ways in which we can reduce them further, from changes in procurement—the…19 Jul 2022HANSARDNet ZeroI thank my hon. Friend, who campaigns hard on this issue for Airedale Hospital. I absolutely understand the urgency around aerated concrete given the effect it is having, and of…19 Jul 2022HANSARDNet ZeroWe are committed to supporting the NHS to achieve net zero by 2040 for direct emissions, with the Government already investing £280 million through the public sector…19 Jul 2022HANSARDUnusable PPEI outlined in my answer to the hon. Member for East Renfrewshire (Kirsten Oswald) that around half a billion-worth of pounds of procurement in Scotland did not go through the…19 Jul 2022HANSARDNHS PPE Supply Chains: Forced LabourI am very happy to do that. While I have been able to highlight what the NHS is doing, some good cross-departmental work is also being done on procurement and on identifying where…14 Jul 2022