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HANSARDIndependent Medicines and Medical Devices Safety ReviewEvery recommendation in the report is a priority and everything will be given equal consideration. I hope that either I or the Secretary of State will be able to come back to the…09 Jul 2020HANSARDIndependent Medicines and Medical Devices Safety ReviewI thank my hon. Friend for her comment. She is absolutely right. The report is entitled “First Do No Harm”, and we here have to do some good in response to it. Work is being…09 Jul 2020HANSARDIndependent Medicines and Medical Devices Safety ReviewI thank my hon. Friend for that point. I had a thought while I was listening to him, which is that I did not mention Sir Cyril Chantler in my statement, the doctor who contributed…09 Jul 2020HANSARDIndependent Medicines and Medical Devices Safety ReviewI could not agree with the hon. Lady more. As I said earlier, whether it is Shipman, Paterson, Cumberlege or a maternity incident, women so often struggle to get their voices…09 Jul 2020HANSARDIndependent Medicines and Medical Devices Safety ReviewI thank my hon. Friend for his comments and for his campaigning. It is the campaigning of Members of this House on behalf of their constituents that has got us to the position…09 Jul 2020HANSARDIndependent Medicines and Medical Devices Safety ReviewThe hon. Gentleman makes an interesting point about cancer trials. He may have heard the recent announcement that one of the Nightingale hospitals is to be used for processing…09 Jul 2020HANSARDIndependent Medicines and Medical Devices Safety ReviewThat is an interesting proposal. My right hon. Friend has spoken about Roaccutane several times in the House. She makes an interesting comparison, and we will go away and look at…09 Jul 2020HANSARDIndependent Medicines and Medical Devices Safety ReviewAs the hon. Gentleman knows, that is not a commitment that I can make here at the Dispatch Box today, but we will return to this. All the report’s recommendations are being…09 Jul 2020HANSARDIndependent Medicines and Medical Devices Safety ReviewAs I have just said, this is a two-and-a-half-year report: it is complex. It is a deep dive into issues relating to Primodos, sodium valproate and vaginal mesh. There is…09 Jul 2020HANSARDIndependent Medicines and Medical Devices Safety ReviewApologies, but I am not sure what the hon. Member means in terms of patient safety in the past. All I can say is that patient safety is an absolute priority. My ministerial title…09 Jul 2020HANSARDIndependent Medicines and Medical Devices Safety ReviewMy hon. Friend makes a really important point. It is a recurring theme—over and over again—that when patients complain, the first point of complaint is the trust where they were…09 Jul 2020HANSARDIndependent Medicines and Medical Devices Safety ReviewHealth is devolved in Scotland, of course, but we constantly have conversations with our healthcare partners across all the devolved nations.09 Jul 2020HANSARDIndependent Medicines and Medical Devices Safety ReviewAbsolutely. The MHRA itself is undergoing a culture change and an operational change and is itself looking into how it responds to patients and the way it considers patient safety…09 Jul 2020HANSARDIndependent Medicines and Medical Devices Safety ReviewThat was a long list of asks. I am sure the hon. Gentleman appreciates that we received the report yesterday, and it is a detailed, in-depth and complex report. He is pushing an…09 Jul 2020HANSARDIndependent Medicines and Medical Devices Safety ReviewI pay tribute to my right hon. Friend, who commissioned the review in 2018. Thank goodness he did, because without it, these voices would still be struggling to be heard. On my…09 Jul 2020HANSARDIndependent Medicines and Medical Devices Safety ReviewI thank my hon. Friend—I do regard her as a friend because she is such a principled campaigner on issues such as this. I hope she does not mind my saying that I know that her…09 Jul 2020HANSARDIndependent Medicines and Medical Devices Safety ReviewMy right hon. Friend makes an impassioned and compassionate contribution, and he should be recognised for his long-term campaigning and his advocacy of the people he mentions who…09 Jul 2020HANSARDIndependent Medicines and Medical Devices Safety ReviewI absolutely will. My hon. Friend highlights how long it takes for women’s voices to be heard—since 1973—and I will do as she asks.09 Jul 2020HANSARDIndependent Medicines and Medical Devices Safety ReviewWe will be considering all the recommendations and returning to the House with a full report as soon as possible.09 Jul 2020HANSARDIndependent Medicines and Medical Devices Safety ReviewYes, we will look at that.09 Jul 2020