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HANSARDNHS Winter UpdateI thank my hon. Friend for asking that question and for noting the enormous efforts that clinicians across the NHS have gone to in order to cover these strikes. We are conscious…08 Jan 2024HANSARDNHS Winter UpdateI welcome the hon. Gentleman back from his world tour promoting his book. It is very nice to meet him for the first time across the Dispatch Box. While he was away in sunnier…08 Jan 2024HANSARDNHS Winter UpdateWith permission, Mr Deputy Speaker, I would like to make a statement on the winter pressures facing the national health service and social care, as well as the impact of the…08 Jan 2024HANSARDNHS Winter UpdateI thank my hon. Friend. We know the figures for previous strike actions, but sadly we will hear the true extent and impact of the strike action over the last six days later this…08 Jan 2024HANSARDNHS Winter UpdateI hope the hon. Gentleman is injecting the same anguish into the conversations that I imagine he is having with his local junior doctors, asking them to come back to work. Of…08 Jan 2024HANSARDNHS Winter UpdateFirst of all, I join my hon. Friend in thanking Ms Bullock for her work and public service, and I wish her a speedy recovery. On the progress made in my hon. Friend’s local area,…08 Jan 2024HANSARDNHS Winter UpdateWaiting lists are coming down, but they are still too high. Towards the end of last year, we had a period without any strikes in the NHS. We saw the waiting lists fall by tens of…08 Jan 2024HANSARDNHS Winter UpdateMy hon. Friend puts it eloquently; there is a real human cost to these strike actions. It is why I did everything I could when we were in negotiations to try to find fair and…08 Jan 2024HANSARDNHS Winter UpdateAs I said earlier, strikes have very serious consequences for the NHS. We cannot pretend that the NHS can be switched on and off at whim. My one ask of the junior doctors…08 Jan 2024HANSARDNHS Winter UpdateVery much so—the NHS belongs to us all, as I say repeatedly. It goes without saying that doctors are a critical part of our workforce. That is why, since becoming Secretary of…08 Jan 2024HANSARDNHS Winter UpdateI will ask the Minister for Health and Secondary Care, my right hon. Friend the Member for Pendle (Andrew Stephenson), to liaise with the hon. Lady directly. As I say, the latest…08 Jan 2024HANSARDGovernment Offer to NHS Specialist, Associate Specialist and Specialty DoctorsAfter seven weeks of constructive negotiations with the British Medical Association specialist, associate specialist and specialty doctors committee, I am pleased to inform the…19 Dec 2023HANSARDHealth InequalitiesOf course, conversations continue between Ministers across Government in terms of helping not just with health inequalities but with inequality of opportunity. That is why I very…05 Dec 2023HANSARDHealth InequalitiesNot only am I delighted to accept my hon. Friend’s kind invitation, but I am also extremely grateful for her work in that area. Of course, we think that community diagnostic…05 Dec 2023HANSARDHealth InequalitiesI thank the hon. Lady for her welcome. Having grown up in Lancashire myself, I very much understand why she is speaking up on behalf of her constituents. There are many different…05 Dec 2023HANSARDHealth InequalitiesI thank my right hon. Friend very much for her kind words. She will remember how much I enjoyed sitting on the Front Bench alongside her when we were in the Home Office. In terms…05 Dec 2023HANSARDHealth InequalitiesI am pleased to reiterate to my right hon. Friend the Member for Witham (Priti Patel) that Essex is receiving funding from the National Institute for Health and Care Research,…05 Dec 2023HANSARDDental ServicesI thank the hon. Lady for her warm welcome. I look forward to discussing these matters with her over the Dispatch Box. Over the weekend, I was rather pleased to see the Leader of…05 Dec 2023HANSARDDental ServicesA theme is emerging of underspend in dental work, which is one of the things that the ministerial team and I are looking at. NHS England emphasised in its guidance to ICBs that…05 Dec 2023HANSARDDental ServicesI agree, and that is why NHS England has provided guidance, as I set out earlier.05 Dec 2023