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HANSARD NHS Continuing HealthcareIt is truly a pleasure to serve under your chairship, Mrs Harris—for now, anyway. I thank the hon. Member for Birmingham Perry Barr (Ayoub Khan) for securing this important…25 Mar 2026HANSARD NHS Continuing HealthcareOf course, we want to see consistency and quality right across the board, regardless of who is actually delivering the work. If there are specific issues around private…25 Mar 2026HANSARDNeighbourhood Health FrameworkToday I would like to inform the House about the publication of the neighbourhood health framework, which outlines the next steps that we are asking the NHS and local government…17 Mar 2026HANSARD GP ContractOn buildings, we have the £102 million primary care utilisation fund, which will be very important in refurbishing GP practices. We are committed to delivering 120 new…16 Mar 2026HANSARD GP ContractI thank the hon. Gentleman for the GP-related questions, for which I was grateful when he finally got to them. On clinical evidence for advice and guidance, I think that the…16 Mar 2026HANSARD GP ContractThe Carr-Hill review is happening as we speak, and I expect to get a submission from officials on the first round of analysis that is being conducted by the National Institute for…16 Mar 2026HANSARD GP ContractI am not able to pre-empt the Carr-Hill review, but we have had a system based on data that is often 25 years old. Of course, we know that the Conservatives have the Tunbridge…16 Mar 2026HANSARD GP ContractThe right hon. Gentleman makes a very important point about bureaucracy. Many of the reforms that we are pushing for in the contract are designed to reduce bureaucracy. For…16 Mar 2026HANSARD GP ContractMy hon. Friend is absolutely right. The £292 million we have made available for advice and guidance is repurposed funding from the capacity and access improvement payments, so it…16 Mar 2026HANSARD GP ContractMy hon. Friend is right: avoiding preventable admissions is right at the heart of what we are trying to achieve. Of course, we have challenges with delayed discharge—something…16 Mar 2026HANSARD GP ContractI am not familiar with the details of that specific case, but if the hon. Member writes to me, I will be more than happy to furnish her with a response. There is a real concern in…16 Mar 2026HANSARD GP ContractVery much along the lines of what I said to the hon. Member for Gosport (Dame Caroline Dinenage), we need to ensure that the social infrastructure is there in such areas of…16 Mar 2026HANSARD GP ContractI thank the right hon. Gentleman, but that is precisely what we have been doing. We said in our manifesto that we would bring back the family doctor. We said we would hire 1,000…16 Mar 2026HANSARD GP ContractA number of things have happened which will help with access to GPs. One is the very significant increase in the number of GPs we have put on the frontline and another is online…16 Mar 2026HANSARD GP ContractThe very significant uplift we have made to the contract—the £1.1 billion last year and the £485 million additional investment we are making this year—will go some way to address…16 Mar 2026HANSARD GP ContractMy hon. Friend makes such an important point about paying tribute to the incredible work that our GPs and their teams do right across the length and breadth of our country,…16 Mar 2026HANSARD GP ContractThe key point here is that GPs are the clinicians whom we trust to define what urgent means. There are, of course, a number of criteria and conditions that will ring an extra…16 Mar 2026HANSARD GP ContractMy hon. Friend is a doughty campaigner for his constituents. I am not familiar with the details of the case that he mentions, but I would be happy to look into it; if he would…16 Mar 2026HANSARD GP ContractI thank my hon. Friend for that question; I can feel the passion with which he asks it, particularly because of his family connection. It is vital that clinically urgent patients…16 Mar 2026HANSARD GP ContractThe guidance on neighbourhood health will be published very soon indeed; it is almost complete, and is coming soon. We recognise that general practice will be right at the heart…16 Mar 2026