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HANSARDHealth Bill (Sixteenth sitting)I thank the hon. Member for his speech. I would like to know whether he is aware of any evidence that mass screening of young people with ECGs will actually improve matters.16 Jul 2026HANSARDHealth Bill (Sixteenth sitting)I agree with everything that the Minister has to say—what a surprise—but particularly the fact that when the new Government came in, they did something about these 40 “new”…16 Jul 2026HANSARDHealth Bill (Sixteenth sitting)I am confused by the Opposition referring in their new clause to a requirement to “make regulations” in this respect, as the private sector is already widely used to reduce…16 Jul 2026HANSARDHealth Bill (Sixteenth sitting)I am listening carefully to what the hon. Member, who is a medical colleague of mine, has to say. Although I think that a fracture liaison service is an excellent idea, there are…16 Jul 2026HANSARDHealth Bill (Sixteenth sitting)Does the Minister agree that the single most effective thing that we have done for public health since we were elected is to get the Tobacco and Vapes Act 2026 passed? The gradual…16 Jul 2026HANSARDHealth Bill (Seventeenth sitting)Does the Minister agree that managers in the NHS sometimes get a very bad press from the medical profession? I believe that to be wholly unjustified.16 Jul 2026HANSARDHealth Bill (Seventeenth sitting)Does the hon. Member agree that the invention of vaccination by Jenner centuries ago is the single most important medical invention we have had in this country?16 Jul 2026HANSARDHealth Bill (Seventeenth sitting)I am interested in what the hon. Member has to say about strike action. I was involved in trying to get the resident doctors’ strike stopped, but was unsuccessful for many months.…16 Jul 2026HANSARDHealth Bill (Seventeenth sitting)Will the hon. Lady take another intervention, Ms Lewell?16 Jul 2026HANSARDHealth Bill (Seventeenth sitting)This is, obviously, a very interesting discussion. I agree—I actually do—that medical practitioners should not go on strike, but the question is whether that should be the law. I…16 Jul 2026HANSARDHealth Bill (Seventeenth sitting)A fine vintage.16 Jul 2026HANSARDHealth Bill (Seventeenth sitting)I wonder whether the hon. Member’s experience mirrors mine. Many years ago, it seemed to be easy for general practitioners to ring me up. I often received telephone calls from…16 Jul 2026HANSARDHealth Bill (Seventeenth sitting)The other important fact is that more and more hospital referrals were not coming from general practitioners at all, but from other people working in the general practice such as…16 Jul 2026HANSARDHealth Bill (Seventeenth sitting)I think the new clause refers specifically to the foundation programme—16 Jul 2026HANSARDHealth Bill (Seventeenth sitting)Does it actually say that in the new clause?16 Jul 2026HANSARDTopical QuestionsT6. On Friday I met members of Barnham parish council in my constituency and the headteacher of the adjacent primary school, Amy. They raised concerns about the proposed…13 Jul 2026HANSARDImmigration and Asylum BillI want to speak about something very simple: the difference between being put somewhere and being welcomed somewhere. When Russia invaded Ukraine, we welcomed Ukrainians into our…13 Jul 2026HANSARDHealth Bill (Fifteenth sitting)Although it is true that hospital management could concentrate on dealing with the waits in A&E, surely it needs to concentrate on the flow through the entire hospital. Every…09 Jul 2026HANSARDHealth Bill (Fourteenth sitting)On the publication of data on avoidable deaths, new clause 84 states “where waits of more than 12 hours in accident and emergency departments was a contributory factor.” Does the…09 Jul 2026HANSARDHealth Bill (Fourteenth sitting)When I was a young doctor—a registrar—in the 1980s, we had 300,000 beds in our health service. By the time I was a senior doctor in the 2020s, we had 140,00 beds—less than half…09 Jul 2026