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HANSARDNHS Winter UpdateI pay tribute to both my hon. Friend and my right hon. Friend the Minister for Health and Secondary Care for their work as first responders. I would get into a lot of trouble in…08 Jan 2024HANSARDNHS Winter UpdateWe are making progress. The hon. Gentleman will appreciate that that figure alters not just day by day, but hour by hour. We have been investing in social care packages precisely…08 Jan 2024HANSARDNHS Winter UpdateI would be happy to do so. I am pleased to hear of local NHS leaders actively seeking the views of the patients and communities they serve, in order to ensure that their services…08 Jan 2024HANSARDNHS Winter UpdateI reassure the hon. Lady that the impact of mental health patients remaining in A&E for any length of time, let alone beyond 72 hours, is genuinely a metric and factor that we…08 Jan 2024HANSARDNHS Winter UpdateI will follow that advice with great enthusiasm. I have another statistic for my right hon. Friend: the Labour-run Welsh Government were hiding 45,000 patients from their A&E…08 Jan 2024HANSARDNHS Winter UpdateThat is a very fair challenge, and I will look into it, given that the hon. Gentleman has raised it.08 Jan 2024HANSARDNHS Winter UpdateIndeed. I thank my hon. Friend for all the hard work and advocacy she puts in on behalf of her constituents. If I may, I will ask the Minister for Health and Secondary Care to…08 Jan 2024HANSARDNHS Winter UpdateWe have—in the NHS long-term plan. We have set an ambition to grow the mental health workforce by an additional 27,000 staff between 2019-20 and 2023-24. That is in addition to…08 Jan 2024HANSARDNHS Winter UpdateThe figure that the BMA relies on is in fact from 2008, when the Labour party was in government for the first two years. The BMA cites a 35% pay rise. Just to clarify, independent…08 Jan 2024HANSARDNHS Winter UpdateI thank my hon. Friend for all his work in making that happen. He worked very hard on virtual wards when he was a Health Minister, and they represent a real step change in how we…08 Jan 2024HANSARDNHS Winter UpdateI hope the hon. Gentleman will be interested to know that we have made cancer treatment waiting times a key focus of our elective recovery plan, which has been backed by an…08 Jan 2024HANSARDNHS Winter UpdateMy hon. Friend sets out clearly the many pressures and factors at play in running emergency departments and hospitals at the best of times, when we are not in the middle of winter…08 Jan 2024HANSARDNHS Winter UpdateI am extremely grateful to the right hon. Lady, who will know that our constituencies, albeit not necessarily in the same region, nevertheless share similarities, being relatively…08 Jan 2024HANSARDNHS Winter UpdateI thank my right hon. Friend for her work in the Department. She knows only too well the difference an inspirational leader can make to a local NHS trust, and at regional or…08 Jan 2024HANSARDNHS Winter UpdateI thank the hon. Lady for re-emphasising the critical timing of the strike actions and the impact it has on patients. We know that winter is difficult. It is not just difficult…08 Jan 2024HANSARDNHS Winter UpdateFirst, I sincerely thank my hon. Friend. I was in contact with her over the weekend when she had come off a very long shift in emergency care, looking after patients locally. I…08 Jan 2024HANSARDNHS Winter UpdateI am so sorry, I do not know who the hon. Lady is referring to. On the Conservatives’ plans, at the 2022 autumn statement we announced up to £7.5 billion of additional funding—an…08 Jan 2024HANSARDNHS Winter UpdateMy hon. Friend is a brilliant advocate on the challenges facing his rural and coastal community. We all know that geography is a factor in the difficulties of delivering…08 Jan 2024HANSARDNHS Winter UpdateI welcome my right hon. Friend back. I have said throughout this that I was extremely disappointed that the committee chose to walk away from discussions. I also think that there…08 Jan 2024HANSARDNHS Winter UpdateI imagine that the hon. Lady has seen that we accepted in full the pay review body’s recommendations last year and, as of September, junior doctors and doctors in training have…08 Jan 2024