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HANSARDCommunity HospitalsThe big thrust of our 10-year plan will be to deliver on the three shifts: from hospital to community, from analogue to digital, and from sickness to prevention. We believe that…25 Mar 2025HANSARDCommunity HospitalsI am very sympathetic to the argument that the right hon. Gentleman makes about the importance of neighbourhood health services in Borehamwood, and indeed in towns and communities…25 Mar 2025HANSARDCommunity HospitalsMy hon. Friend is absolutely right about the innovation and the impact of virtual wards. I have seen at first hand the impact they can have—not just in providing better value for…25 Mar 2025HANSARDTopical QuestionsI am sure that the whole House will want to send our condolences to the right hon. Gentleman following the loss of his father. It is good to see him back in action—if not always…25 Mar 2025HANSARD NHS England UpdateThe hon. Member is absolutely right: the estate is vast, it is underutilised, and we need to sweat our assets more effectively. We also need to reform bureaucratic processes.…13 Mar 2025HANSARD NHS England UpdateMy hon. Friend is absolutely right. Some of the best innovation and improvements for patients I have seen has been led by frontline clinical teams that have had great executive…13 Mar 2025HANSARD NHS England UpdateI am grateful to the Liberal Democrats for those questions. Much of the change needed can be delivered without the need for primary legislation, which is a relief because, as…13 Mar 2025HANSARD NHS England UpdateI was recently in contact with Mike Nesbitt, offering some of that support and offering to work together to help improve the quality of health services in Northern Ireland,…13 Mar 2025HANSARD NHS England UpdateThere are 889 million reasons for GPs to be cheerful. That amount was the allocation for general practice before Christmas, and it has resulted in fruitful negotiations with GP…13 Mar 2025HANSARD NHS England UpdateThe Government have come in with an ambitious reform agenda. As we embark on that reform, we are cutting NHS waiting lists—we have done that five months in a row. We are reforming…13 Mar 2025HANSARD NHS England UpdateWe have to deliver improved services for patients in every part of the country. Her constituency and mine, which is on the London-Essex border, will have different needs, contexts…13 Mar 2025HANSARD NHS England UpdateThe frustrating thing is that we are delivering the wrong care in the wrong place at the wrong time, which is delivering poorer outcomes for patients and poorer value for…13 Mar 2025HANSARD NHS England UpdateThat is a great question from my hon. Friend. We have to give people the tools to do the job. The Prime Minister set me and my hon. Friends in the Department an enormous challenge…13 Mar 2025HANSARD NHS England UpdateAnd my friends at DCMS with their considerable spending power. No, I will stick with the Treasury in my order of favourites, thank you very much. I know where my bread is…13 Mar 2025HANSARD NHS England UpdateNHS dentistry is in a terrible state and, in fact, in many parts of the country it barely exists. There are lots of reasons for that, and it is a source of constant astonishment…13 Mar 2025HANSARD NHS England UpdateIt always worries me when my hon. Friend says he wants to see me in front of the Select Committee because he does not pull his punches, despite being on the Government side of the…13 Mar 2025HANSARD NHS England UpdateI would be delighted to speak further with the right hon. Gentleman, drawing on that valuable experience both as a constituency MP and as a Treasury Minister—always, for the…13 Mar 2025HANSARD NHS England UpdateI can certainly give the hon. Gentleman that assurance. We have to cut through the unnecessary red tape that ties leaders and frontline staff up in knots, and we are absolutely…13 Mar 2025HANSARD NHS England UpdateWith permission, I would like to make a statement on the future of NHS England. Since coming into office, this Government have made big strides in fixing our broken NHS. Under the…13 Mar 2025HANSARD NHS England UpdateMy hon. Friend is absolutely right: if we just replicate NHS England as it is with all the challenges in its set-up in ICBs across the land, we will have failed. Frankly, if we…13 Mar 2025