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HANSARDNHS: Winter PreparednessYes. The JCVI makes evidence-based recommendations, and we follow its evidence. With the best will in the world, we of course give out practical, common-sense advice, but we…15 Dec 2025HANSARDNHS: Winter PreparednessI speak regularly with my counterparts, and the Ministers who are either side of me this afternoon have been engaging with our counterparts in recent weeks on these issues. We…15 Dec 2025HANSARDNHS: Winter Preparednessrose—15 Dec 2025HANSARDNHS: Winter PreparednessMy hon. Friend is absolutely right. Responsible trade unions think about the wider workforce and the impact on service users, whether they are children or other users of public…15 Dec 2025HANSARDNHS: Winter PreparednessThere are many examples of great community-based vaccination initiatives. Many of those initiatives are supported by faith-based organisations, which is really important given the…15 Dec 2025HANSARDNHS: Winter PreparednessI thank the hon. Gentleman for his question. Given that politicians are somewhere below traffic wardens and estate agents in terms of public popularity at the moment, it is quite…15 Dec 2025HANSARDNHS: Winter PreparednessThanks to the decisions taken by this Labour Government, we have increased funding for general practice by £1.1 billion, we deployed not just 1,000 more GPs to the frontline in…15 Dec 2025HANSARDNHS: Winter PreparednessThat is very good advice on vaccination. If people require health services and it not an accident or an emergency, they should call 111, visit the website or use the NHS app.…15 Dec 2025HANSARDNHS: Winter PreparednessWe do flex beds depending on needs. For example, there were just over 101,000 beds open on average per day in the past week, which was up on the previous week and broadly the same…15 Dec 2025HANSARDNHS: Winter PreparednessI certainly hope that when making the decision about whether to go to work this week, resident doctors bear in mind the pressures that the NHS is under, the consequences of their…15 Dec 2025HANSARDNHS: Winter PreparednessThe hon. Gentleman is absolutely right to raise the interests not just of our cities and towns but of rural communities. I was proud of the emphasis that we placed on rural…15 Dec 2025HANSARDNHS: Winter PreparednessThrough my hon. Friend I thank staff at Milton Keynes hospital for all their hard work—I have had the privilege of visiting recently—and I thank all NHS staff for what they are…15 Dec 2025HANSARDNHS: Winter PreparednessI am not a clinician or a scientist, but the JCVI is full of them and we follow its expert advice. It will, in the normal way, review how this winter has gone and look ahead to…15 Dec 2025HANSARDNHS: Winter PreparednessFurther to that point of order, Madam Deputy Speaker. I just wanted to welcome the hon. Gentleman’s endorsement of vaccination. It is by far the most sensible thing he has ever…15 Dec 2025HANSARDNHS: Winter PreparednessFirst, I thank the staff of Derriford hospital. I have visited it a number of times over the years, and have seen them coping with pressures at the height of summer, during peak…15 Dec 2025HANSARDNHS: Winter PreparednessThat is part of GPs’ contractual obligations. Accurate reporting is absolutely central, both from an ethics and integrity perspective, and because it helps to inform us about the…15 Dec 2025HANSARDNHS: Winter PreparednessI thank the hon. Member for being helpful in two ways. First, it is always good to hear voices from the right making the case for vaccine uptake. That contrasts the Conservative…15 Dec 2025HANSARDNHS: Winter PreparednessI have lost count of the number of times I have met the BMA personally, or spoken on the telephone, including as recently as this afternoon, with the chair of the resident doctors…15 Dec 2025HANSARDNHS: Winter PreparednessNo member of staff should be bullied for going to work this week and doing the right thing by patients. I am grateful to resident doctors who have been at work during previous…15 Dec 2025HANSARDNHS: Winter PreparednessTwo things: first, we will certainly give serious consideration to the point made by my hon. Friend the Member for Walthamstow (Ms Creasy)—the JCVI will do that in the usual way,…15 Dec 2025