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HANSARDIndustrial ActionBefore this Government came to office, strikes were crippling the NHS. Costs ran to £1.7 billion in just one year, and patients saw 1.5 million appointments rescheduled. Strikes…22 Jul 2025HANSARDNeighbourhood Health ServicesThat sounds like another bid for a neighbourhood health centre in the right hon. Gentleman’s constituency, but I am sure that local commissioners will be delighted to hear the…22 Jul 2025HANSARDNeighbourhood Health ServicesThat was just one of many instances in which my hon. Friend has made the voices and views of people across Barrow and Furness heard loudly and clearly in this place and across…22 Jul 2025HANSARDNeighbourhood Health ServicesIt is only with proper investment and reform that we will bring care closer to people’s homes and into the community. Our 10-year health plan will roll out a neighbourhood health…22 Jul 2025HANSARDHealth InequalitiesI can certainly assure the shadow Minister that the chief nursing officer and I are working proactively to deal with nursing unemployment. We are also working with the leadership…22 Jul 2025HANSARDHealth InequalitiesI can certainly give the hon. Gentleman reassurance that the work we are doing to streamline and rationalise the amount of money we are spending on NHS bureaucracy means that we…22 Jul 2025HANSARDHealth InequalitiesI can certainly give the right hon. Gentleman the assurance that my Department will look into the provider that he raises. One reason I was proud that this Government increased…22 Jul 2025HANSARDHealth InequalitiesI can certainly give my hon. Friend that commitment. The damage that was wreaked by the previous Government, not just across our health service but across every other part of…22 Jul 2025HANSARDHealth InequalitiesThe driving force behind this Government’s approach to health is the principle that whoever a person is and whatever their background, they should receive the same world-class…22 Jul 2025HANSARDHealth InequalitiesI am grateful to my hon. Friend for pointing out those stark differences in healthy life expectancy within a single inner London borough that contains some of the richest people…22 Jul 2025HANSARDTopical QuestionsUnder this Government, waiting lists have fallen by more than a quarter of a million in our first year, but strike action puts that hard-won progress at risk. If strikes do go…22 Jul 2025HANSARDAccident and Emergency Waiting TimesI can certainly reassure the shadow Minister on this. The Minister for Public Health has already accepted that recommendation and is working at pace on implementation. May I wish…22 Jul 2025HANSARDAccident and Emergency Waiting TimesAs the hon. Gentleman knows, urgent and emergency care services have been struggling right across the country, but he is right to identify where there are serious and significant…22 Jul 2025HANSARDAccident and Emergency Waiting TimesConfiguration of services is a matter for local commissioners. However, let me take this opportunity to reassure the hon. Gentleman that I have taken into account representations…22 Jul 2025HANSARDAccident and Emergency Waiting TimesMy hon. Friend is absolutely right. It is unacceptable that corridor care became the norm under the Conservatives. We will not accept it as normal; it is not acceptable. Ahead of…22 Jul 2025HANSARDAccident and Emergency Waiting TimesI agree with my hon. Friend. There is no sign of the SNP Members this morning. They have obviously clocked off for the summer—or maybe they are just sparing their blushes, because…22 Jul 2025HANSARDAccident and Emergency Waiting TimesThis Government inherited an intolerable situation in A&E, where over a decade of Tory failures left patients waiting in pain. We are doing the hard work needed to start repairing…22 Jul 2025HANSARDNational Security InvestmentI am today confirming that the Government will proceed with the construction of a new, state-of-the-art health security campus—including new high containment laboratory…17 Jul 2025HANSARDVaccination Coding in General PracticeI would like to update the House of an important issue affecting the NHS’s provision of vaccinations. An issue has been identified in the use of Accurx batch messaging, a system…17 Jul 2025HANSARDIndependent Review of Physician Associates and Anaesthesia AssociatesIn November 2024, I asked Professor Gillian Leng CBE to undertake an independent review of physician associates and anaesthesia associates in England, and to set out…16 Jul 2025