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HANSARDNHS Waiting ListsI said that there is a clock stop.25 Nov 2025HANSARDHealth InequalitiesWomen’s health is a priority for me, for my Department and for the Government. Since I last answered questions in the House we have extended the NHS health check to include the…25 Nov 2025HANSARDNHS Waiting ListsWe came in, and we settled with the resident doctors with a 28.9% pay rise. It should be clear to them from the questions that Opposition Members have asked and the extent to…25 Nov 2025HANSARDTopical QuestionsI am happy to report to the hon. Gentleman that we are well on the way towards delivering the 8,500 more mental health staff we promised in our manifesto, with over 6,500 already…25 Nov 2025HANSARDTopical QuestionsMy hon. Friend is absolutely right about the need to improve the quality of the paediatric workforce. We are considering that as we revise the workforce plan. I am proud that…25 Nov 2025HANSARDTopical QuestionsIf I were the hon. Gentleman, I would be more worried about the situation close to home and the SNP’s abysmal record of failure: while waiting lists are falling in Labour-led…25 Nov 2025HANSARDTopical QuestionsI was very clear in opposition about the Government’s responsibility to sit down and negotiate, and that is exactly what I have been doing. It takes two to tango. As for the other…25 Nov 2025HANSARDNHS Industrial ActionTrade unions, representing the majority of NHS staff, are engaged in constructive dialogue with the Government, particularly around reform of Agenda for Change. All NHS staff have…25 Nov 2025HANSARDTopical QuestionsObesity robs children of the best possible start in life, hits the poorest hardest, sets them up for a lifetime of health problems and costs the NHS billions, so I can announce to…25 Nov 2025HANSARDHealth InequalitiesI thank the Liberal Democrat spokesperson for her question. She is right to raise the inequalities at the heart of poor maternity care, as well as failures in services overall. We…25 Nov 2025HANSARDTopical QuestionsI am sure that my hon. Friend the Minister for Care would be delighted to meet. The men’s health strategy sets out precisely the challenge in those terms. Through the partnerships…25 Nov 2025HANSARDMen’s Health ServicesI join my hon. Friend in commending Lord Cameron on his openness. Raising awareness, as we know, encourages men to come forward and leads to more diagnosis. He has done a great…25 Nov 2025HANSARDNHS Waiting ListsMy hon. Friend is absolutely right. More patients are waiting a year for treatment in Ayrshire and Arran than in the entire south-west of England—that is shocking. Thanks to the…25 Nov 2025HANSARDNHS Waiting ListsIndustrial action sets back our progress on waiting lists, but frankly, the Conservatives presided over an absolute mess—not just over the course of 14 years, when waiting lists…25 Nov 2025HANSARDNHS Waiting ListsI honestly cannot believe the brass neck of Conservative Members; their time in government led to the longest waiting times and lowest patient satisfaction in the history of the…25 Nov 2025HANSARDMen’s Health ServicesWe are expecting the draft recommendations, and then a three-month consultation period will follow, but I want to act quickly on the evidence and what the recommendations contain,…25 Nov 2025HANSARDMen’s Health ServicesMay I first commend my hon. Friend not just on leading the recent International Men’s Day debate, but on his courage in speaking so openly about his own experience of sexual…25 Nov 2025HANSARDAccess to GPsI certainly can, and I am sorry that my hon. Friend’s constituent was let down. Everyone who needs a same-day appointment should be able to book one, and that is what we are…25 Nov 2025HANSARDAccess to GPsI am sure that the hon. Member’s constituents will have noticed what an assiduous and active Member of Parliament she has been in actively soliciting their views. I hope that they…25 Nov 2025HANSARDAccess to GPsWell, Mr Speaker, you couldn’t script this! We have a doctor in the House—my hon. Friend the Member for Bury St Edmunds and Stowmarket (Peter Prinsley)—whose phone was alive as…25 Nov 2025