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HANSARD NHS Long-term PlanI enjoyed my visit to Derriford Hospital’s night shift and learned an awful lot from it. One of the consequences of seeing what is happening on the ground is that we are providing…07 Jan 2019HANSARD NHS Long-term PlanI will take advice and consideration from many people, but not from the hon. Gentleman, who for seven years has run a frankly outrageous campaign based on scare stories about…07 Jan 2019HANSARD NHS Long-term PlanYes, absolutely. My hon. Friend is a brilliant advocate for Torbay and for the English Riviera, and has made the case so strongly for his local hospital. I was delighted that we…07 Jan 2019HANSARD NHS Long-term PlanPage 32 of the document sets out details on the integration with social care that the hon. Lady rightly calls for. Clearly, ensuring better integration in cases of dementia is…07 Jan 2019HANSARD NHS Long-term PlanYes. I feel strongly about this. Chapter 5 of the plan is all about digitally enabled care. The interoperability of data between systems in different parts of the NHS is…07 Jan 2019HANSARD NHS Long-term PlanI know that the hon. Gentleman takes a close interest in that, as chair of the all-party group. Obviously we need more nurses. The vacancies are, in many cases, filled by…07 Jan 2019HANSARD NHS Long-term PlanNo; we are proposing to have more targeted support for those who need it, to ensure that we get support to the areas of nursing with the most acute shortages, such as community…07 Jan 2019HANSARD NHS Long-term PlanSupporting children with mental ill health is an incredibly important part of the plan, from early intervention on anxiety and depression through to support for those with more…07 Jan 2019HANSARD NHS Long-term PlanMy hon. Friend is dead right. There is a whole chapter in the plan on using new technologies not only to improve care but to make care more convenient. He has been a doughty…07 Jan 2019HANSARD NHS Long-term PlanIn debates on the future of our nation’s healthcare, we should always start with the facts, and the fact is that social care funding is going up. It went up by £240 million this…07 Jan 2019HANSARD NHS Long-term PlanI entirely understand the hon. Gentleman’s argument. He is a reasonable man who makes reasonable arguments, and I will take it up with Mike Richards, who is running the screening…07 Jan 2019HANSARD NHS Long-term PlanI pay tribute to the hon. Lady’s work as chair of the all-party parliamentary group on infant feeding and inequalities. She makes a strong and passionate case for breast feeding.…07 Jan 2019HANSARD NHS Long-term PlanWith permission, I would like to make a statement about the NHS long-term plan. The plan sets out how we will guarantee the NHS for the future. It describes how we will use the…07 Jan 2019HANSARD NHS Long-term PlanWell, I think we discovered from that that Labour has absolutely nothing to say about the future health of the nation. The hon. Gentleman did not even deign to thank the people…07 Jan 2019HANSARD NHS Long-term PlanYes, I would be very happy to meet my hon. Friend to discuss the legislative changes. These changes have been proposed by the NHS. The NHS wants the changes set out at a high…07 Jan 2019HANSARD NHS Long-term PlanWhen I answered a previous question on the timing of the social care Green Paper, I said it would be provided “soon.” I certainly intend that to happen before April. My previous…07 Jan 2019