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HANSARD New HospitalsAs I touched on a moment ago, there are a range of initiatives across the NHS estate. The leadership team from the Getting It Right First Time programme, including Professor Tim…25 May 2023HANSARD New HospitalsI very much agree. My hon. Friend is right to draw attention to the £8 million investment in Southend and the wider capital programme, not least the roll-out of diagnostic centres…25 May 2023HANSARD New HospitalsMy hon. Friend has not only championed Watford General Hospital; he has worked there as a volunteer on many occasions. He has been compelling in the representations he made to…25 May 2023HANSARD New HospitalsI have been before, as the hon. Gentleman knows, not least because I was an unsuccessful candidate in 1997, when he was elected to the House. I am very happy to ensure that a note…25 May 2023HANSARD New HospitalsMy right hon. Friend has assiduously and passionately led the campaign on this. I stand ready to have further discussions with her. She is right about the trust going into the…25 May 2023HANSARD New HospitalsThe announcement and the manifesto commitment were to build by 2030. The hon. Lady touches on the engagement with industry; Lord Markham has been engaging with industry. We have…25 May 2023HANSARD New HospitalsIt is not just the Eden Project North on which my hon. Friend has been a vigorous campaigner: he has raised this assiduously as well. As he knows, the trust is at a very early…25 May 2023HANSARD New HospitalsAt pretty much every election the hon. Gentleman has stood for, he has said that all the local hospitals will be closed by a Conservative Government, so it is good to have him…25 May 2023HANSARD New HospitalsThank you, Madam Deputy Speaker. We recognise the importance of the Imperial bid; that is why we are starting to build the temporary ward capacity at Charing Cross and the first…25 May 2023HANSARD New HospitalsSt Mary’s is part of three aspects of the Imperial NHS trust: there is the work at Charing Cross in Hammersmith, where we are building the temporary ward to unblock the…25 May 2023HANSARD New HospitalsI pay tribute to my right hon. Friend for her campaigning on this issue, together with other Members, including my hon. Friends the Members for Mid Norfolk (George Freeman) and…25 May 2023HANSARD New HospitalsThere are different issues around construction and service design. In terms of service design, there will need to be discussions with local clinicians and others. As my hon.…25 May 2023HANSARDPatient ChoiceI share my hon. Friend’s desire. As part of this announcement, payment will follow patients to incentivise trusts to take on more, which further underpins patient choice. We are…25 May 2023HANSARDPatient ChoiceAs so often, the hon. Gentleman raises an extremely important point about how we tackle the serious issue of eating disorders. As he knows, we are increasing our funding for…25 May 2023HANSARDPatient ChoiceMy right hon. Friend has lobbied me on this issue a number of times, including outside the Chamber. As such a senior parliamentarian, he well knows that tax is a matter for the…25 May 2023HANSARD New HospitalsIt is a very strange approach to complain about Members coming to the Chamber. The hon. Gentleman almost sinks his own point with his opening gambit. We are here because of the…25 May 2023HANSARDPatient ChoiceMy right hon. Friend raises a very good point. As he knows, there is interaction between what is and is not on the balance sheet. His point particularly relates to the roll-out of…25 May 2023HANSARDPatient ChoiceAs the record shows, numbers have been increasing. There are 37,000 more doctors and 52,000 more nurses within primary care than in 2010. We have already reached our manifesto…25 May 2023HANSARDPatient ChoiceI am very happy to join my hon. Friend in paying tribute to Jane Ingham, who, as he says, is retiring after 10 years in that post. She has a long history of working to improve the…25 May 2023HANSARDPatient ChoiceI can confirm that, from October, we will roll this out to those who have been waiting more than 40 weeks, and we will look to bring down that threshold over time. We will focus…25 May 2023