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HANSARDMajor Conditions and DiseasesAs this House is aware, the health and social care system faces long-term challenges to ensure the public enjoy longer and healthier lives. Currently in England, 5.4 million…24 Jan 2023HANSARDTopical QuestionsI am very happy to give my hon. Friend that commitment. She is absolutely right to highlight the centrality of diagnostics and its importance in our overall plan to get elective…24 Jan 2023HANSARDNHS Workforce: Retention and RecruitmentThe long-term workforce plan that is being developed by NHS England will help to ensure that we have the right staff numbers with the right skills to deliver high-quality services…24 Jan 2023HANSARDMental Health: Expected SpendLast year, the Health and Care Act 2022 received Royal Assent, enacting the most significant health legislation for a decade into law. The Act introduced a statutory requirement…23 Jan 2023HANSARD NHS: Long-term StrategyThe data shows very clearly the profound impact of the pandemic, and the data shows that the impact is not constrained to England. It is acute in— [ Interruption. ] The hon.…11 Jan 2023HANSARD NHS: Long-term StrategyI am very open to that idea. For all the sound and fury that there sometimes is within the political debate, I know that there are certain topics within health on which people…11 Jan 2023HANSARD NHS: Long-term StrategyI will answer the hon. Gentleman’s first question. I will then give him a second go, as he is chuntering. Hospital flu admissions went up sevenfold in a month. The figure is 100…11 Jan 2023HANSARD NHS: Long-term StrategyMay I just answer the last point, as the hon. Member for Easington (Grahame Morris) raised an important issue, and one that matters to many families? On the substance of his point…11 Jan 2023HANSARD NHS: Long-term StrategyYes, I will.11 Jan 2023HANSARD NHS: Long-term StrategyIt is a good thing to be bringing more funding into healthcare rather than turning it away. However, conscious of your edict, Mr Deputy Speaker, I will truncate some of the areas…11 Jan 2023HANSARD NHS: Long-term StrategyMy right hon. Friend raises an extremely important matter. I was in the Department when the current Chancellor was Secretary of State and when we made that commitment to a 25%…11 Jan 2023HANSARD NHS: Long-term StrategyI know that the hon. Gentleman has been keen to get in, so I will give way, but then I must make some progress.11 Jan 2023HANSARD NHS: Long-term StrategyI do not think those are factors that affected what happened in Scotland, where the First Minister warned on Monday that the hospitals were almost completely full. Indeed, the…11 Jan 2023HANSARD NHS: Long-term StrategyThe issue of bed capacity does indeed matter. I made the point a few moments ago that flow in hospitals is obviously constrained when bed numbers are high. That is exactly why, in…11 Jan 2023HANSARD NHS: Long-term StrategyLet me check the diaries with the Department. These things are always dangerous because we need to know what the travel plans and various commitments are, but I hear the hon.…11 Jan 2023HANSARD NHS: Long-term StrategyMy hon. Friend highlights an extremely important area of innovation that speaks to the point about how to adopt that at scale. I will come on to the issue of virtual wards. At…11 Jan 2023HANSARD NHS: Long-term StrategyI beg to move an amendment, to leave out from “House” to end and add: “pays tribute to the work done by the National Health Service and recognises that there are pressures on…11 Jan 2023HANSARD NHS: Long-term StrategyI am being pretty reasonable on interventions, so if the hon. Gentleman will give me a moment.11 Jan 2023HANSARD NHS: Long-term StrategyThe Opposition want to hear what the Government are doing, and then they tell me that they do not want to hear.11 Jan 2023HANSARD NHS: Long-term StrategyAs so often, my right hon. Friend raises an extremely important point about how we best use the resources and significant investment being put into the NHS. He will recognise that…11 Jan 2023