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HANSARDHealth and Social CareThe medicines and medical devices Bill is designed to make it easier for hospitals to take part in trials of cutting edge medicines, including personalised medicines, and allow us…16 Jan 2020HANSARDHealth and Social CareI will rattle through as fast as I can, Mr Deputy Speaker, but I also want to take as many interventions as I can, if that is okay. [ Interruption. ] No, okay, no interventions.…16 Jan 2020HANSARDHealth and Social CareThat is right, and of those 40 new hospitals over the next decade, one of the very first will be in Harlow. I pay tribute to my right hon. Friend, who has been a champion of…16 Jan 2020HANSARDTopical QuestionsWe have the largest infrastructure investment programme in a generation and I am very happy to look at the specific request from Hull to ensure it gets the infrastructure it needs.29 Oct 2019HANSARDPrEPThis is an important issue and I care very much about getting the roll-out right. I chastise the hon. Gentleman slightly for his tone. The Minister met the Terrence Higgins Trust…29 Oct 2019HANSARDBedroliteI am very happy to meet my hon. Friend and colleagues from the MS Society. She is right to say that we need to ensure we get the evidence that the clinicians understandably want,…29 Oct 2019HANSARDBedroliteWe have changed the law so that specialist doctors on the GMC’s specialist register can now prescribe cannabis-based products. I have asked the NHS to undertake a rapid review of…29 Oct 2019HANSARDCystic Fibrosis DrugsI can assure my hon. Friend, who has campaigned long and hard on the issue of access to Kuvan, that we are working on that as well. I hope very much that we can come to a positive…29 Oct 2019HANSARDTopical QuestionsHow could I say no as my wife was an osteopath? I understand very strongly the importance and value of those professions.29 Oct 2019HANSARDTopical QuestionsAs we discussed in the answer to an earlier question, I have both decriminalised the use of cannabis oil and introduced the National Institute for Health Research clinical trials.…29 Oct 2019HANSARDTopical QuestionsMy predecessor, my right hon. Friend, is an assiduous campaigner for South West Surrey. There is no better spokesman for South West Surrey than my right hon. Friend. He has raised…29 Oct 2019HANSARDTopical QuestionsThe joint report was excellent.29 Oct 2019HANSARDTopical QuestionsThe NHS is not on the table in any trade deal. Medicine pricing and drugs pricing is not on the table in a trade deal. Let me bring the hon. Lady’s attention to this quotation…29 Oct 2019HANSARDTopical QuestionsYes. In January, with my hon. Friend’s support, we launched the five-year plan to tackle antimicrobial resistance. We have now taken that to a global level; this is a global…29 Oct 2019HANSARDPrEPWe have expanded access to PrEP—pre-exposure prophylaxis—so that everyone who needs it should have access. Thousands more places remain available on the trial. We are working…29 Oct 2019HANSARDCystic Fibrosis DrugsI am delighted that a deal has been agreed to provide Orkambi and other cystic fibrosis drugs on the NHS. This deal is great value for the NHS and backed by the National Institute…29 Oct 2019HANSARDTopical QuestionsI am absolutely happy to look at that. We have put in place the health infrastructure plan to ensure that there is a long-term plan for replacing ailing hospitals. That includes…29 Oct 2019HANSARDTopical QuestionsToday is the first time I have heard of this. National health service redundancy terms were capped at £160,000 in April 2015. We consulted on bringing that down to £95,000 and we…29 Oct 2019HANSARDTopical QuestionsI want to pay tribute to the hon. Lady for the work that she, her Health Committee and all its members have done on this legislation. I think that the legislation proposed by the…29 Oct 2019HANSARDTopical QuestionsI am of course engaged with the Treasury on this, but I would also say that these flexibilities are available right across the country and they must be used by trusts.29 Oct 2019