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HANSARDNHS CapacityI absolutely agree with my right hon. Friend. Let me take this opportunity once again to thank everyone who has been working in the NHS, especially for all that they have done…01 Mar 2022HANSARDNHS CapacityWe have worked with the NHS to expand virtual wards and establish a new national discharge taskforce to safely maximise patient discharge and free up beds. We have also announced…01 Mar 2022HANSARDTopical QuestionsFirst, I pay tribute to my hon. Friend and to my right hon. Friend the Member for Romsey and Southampton North (Caroline Nokes) for all the work they have done on this most…01 Mar 2022HANSARDMarriage and Civil Partnership (Minimum Age) BillMay I take this opportunity to commend my hon. Friend for her tireless campaigning on this most important of issues? She has shown hon. Members and the public exactly why child…25 Feb 2022HANSARDElective TreatmentI am surprised with the argument and the tone of the hon. Gentleman. It is 2022, not 2024. We have all come to expect the scaremongering that we have just heard from the Labour…08 Feb 2022HANSARDElective TreatmentMy right hon. Friend is absolutely right about the importance of making sure that every penny spent in the NHS, or social care for that matter, is spent wisely and in the very…08 Feb 2022HANSARDElective TreatmentI thank my hon. Friend for her support. Over the past two years, the number of clinicians in the NHS has risen by about 40,000. In the past year, we have 10,000 more nurses, 5,000…08 Feb 2022HANSARD Points of Orderindicated dissent.08 Feb 2022HANSARDElective TreatmentAbsolutely; I agree wholeheartedly with my hon. Friend. There are already 44 surgical hubs up and running across the country, including in London. I went to see one at Moorfields,…08 Feb 2022HANSARDElective TreatmentI thank the hon. Lady for her work on the Committee. She is right to raise the importance of mental health. Although today’s plan is focused on elective surgical procedures and…08 Feb 2022HANSARDElective TreatmentWith permission, Mr Speaker, I would like to make a statement on a new, ambitious elective recovery plan—the NHS’s delivery plan for tackling the covid-19 backlog of elective…08 Feb 2022HANSARDElective TreatmentThe hon. Lady, like other hon. Members, is absolutely right to raise the importance of workforce. To deliver on this plan, of course we need to do so much more to keep increasing…08 Feb 2022HANSARDElective TreatmentMy hon. Friend speaks with great experience and raises a really important issue. The short answer is yes. We have fantastic doctors throughout the NHS and more in training in…08 Feb 2022HANSARDElective TreatmentI am always pleased to talk with my right hon. Friend about his ideas and suggestions, and I am happy to meet him to discuss this further, but I am sure he agrees with me on the…08 Feb 2022HANSARDElective TreatmentI welcome the hon. Gentleman’s comments. With respect to life-saving tests and scans, including for cancer, the plan sets out a huge amount of new investment in diagnostic…08 Feb 2022HANSARDElective TreatmentI agree with the hon. Gentleman that all those working in health, and social care for that matter, have been the heroes of this pandemic. Everything that they have delivered and…08 Feb 2022HANSARDElective TreatmentI agree with the hon. Gentleman about the importance of the workforce, especially in the context of specialisms, and pathology is a really good example. That is why we are putting…08 Feb 2022HANSARDElective TreatmentI agree with my hon. Friend about the importance of the workforce. She is right to raise the importance of cancer care and to note that it has remained a huge priority for the NHS…08 Feb 2022HANSARDElective TreatmentThe hon. Lady is of course right to talk about the importance of health inequalities. I hope that when she has had time to look at the plan she will see just how seriously the NHS…08 Feb 2022HANSARDElective TreatmentYes. My hon. Friend is absolutely right to talk about the importance of technology in delivering world-class care. He will know that I have already announced that the parts of our…08 Feb 2022