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HANSARDNHS Long-Term Plan: ImplementationYes, I shall be happy to ensure that that meeting happens. As for Island healthcare costs, my hon. Friend is right to say that the Isle of Wight is unique in its health geography,…01 Jul 2019HANSARDNHS Long-Term Plan: ImplementationMy hon. Friend has raised with me before the new technology developed by Mr Lucas. A new technology such as this can be picked up by all sorts of different parts of the NHS—by…01 Jul 2019HANSARDNHS Long-Term Plan: ImplementationI understand the importance of those drugs. Each one is in a slightly different part of the process. We have opened up availability of medicinal cannabis. Indeed, I was talking…01 Jul 2019HANSARDNHS Long-Term Plan: ImplementationI completely agree with the hon. Gentleman. The whole plan—the whole NHS long-term plan—is about prevention as well as cure. The focus of the NHS needs to switch more towards…01 Jul 2019HANSARDNHS Long-Term Plan: ImplementationYes, my hon. Friend is absolutely right. The plan is of the NHS by the NHS for the NHS. We in Government will absolutely facilitate it and support it, and of course we are putting…01 Jul 2019HANSARDNHS Long-Term Plan: ImplementationI am grateful to the hon. Gentleman for the tone that he takes, and he is absolutely right in his analysis. I know he met the cancer Minister, the Under-Secretary of State for…01 Jul 2019HANSARDNHS Long-Term Plan: ImplementationI wholeheartedly agree with the entirety of what my hon. Friend said. It is true that for the majority of its 71-year history—71 this week—the NHS has been run by Conservative…01 Jul 2019HANSARDNHS Long-Term Plan: ImplementationIf the hon. Gentleman writes to me with the specifics of the case, I will be very happy to look into it. The use of subsidiaries in the way that he described in principle has been…01 Jul 2019HANSARDNHS Long-Term Plan: ImplementationFew people make the case for their constituencies better than my right hon. Friend, and nobody makes the case for Harlow better than him. He invited me around Harlow hospital. I…01 Jul 2019HANSARDNHS Long-Term Plan: ImplementationThe statement was about the implementation of the NHS long-term plan, to which of course the future of social care is vital, which is one reason why the spending power available…01 Jul 2019HANSARDNHS Long-Term Plan: ImplementationI picked out three of the 20 areas that we are particularly focused on in this implementation framework, one of which is the number of GPs and the broader primary care workforce,…01 Jul 2019HANSARDNHS Long-Term Plan: ImplementationYes, and I suggest we meet also with the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government. I have met the Northants MPs to progress this, and I have also meet the…01 Jul 2019HANSARDNHS Long-Term Plan: ImplementationI am not sure what specific case the hon. Gentleman is referring to, but I will tell him this about privatisation: I support the NHS being free at the point of delivery so that…01 Jul 2019HANSARDNHS Long-Term Plan: ImplementationYes, the hon. Gentleman is absolutely right. I agree with what he says. There is a need for the whole medical profession to be constantly up to date with the latest treatment and…01 Jul 2019HANSARDNHS Long-Term Plan: ImplementationYes. First, in terms of the review led by Simon Wessely of the legal powers set by the Mental Health Act 1983, there will be a Government response and then legislation in due…01 Jul 2019HANSARDNHS Long-Term Plan: ImplementationThe answer to that question is being worked on as part of the people plan, which Baroness Dido Harding is putting together. We published the interim plan last month. The full…01 Jul 2019HANSARDNHS Long-Term Plan: ImplementationI thank my right hon. Friend for his question. The shadow Secretary of State is so nice behind the scenes that he sometimes has to get a bit spiky in public, just to prove to his…01 Jul 2019HANSARDNHS Long-Term Plan: ImplementationYes, I agree very strongly with that. When I said that my right hon. Friend the Member for Harlow (Robert Halfon) was one of the best constituency advocates, I forgot my hon.…01 Jul 2019HANSARDJunior Doctors Contract ReviewI am delighted to tell the House that we have successfully brought to an end the junior doctors dispute, following a review of the 2016 contract. The British Medical Association…27 Jun 2019HANSARDTopical QuestionsMy hon. Friend speaks for the whole House about the need for these rare diseases to be given the attention they need so that sufferers such as Max can get the medicines if at all…18 Jun 2019