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HANSARD Health and Social Care: Winter UpdateThroughout the winter, NHS providers have continued to flex bed capacity to meet demand. The important thing is that our approach to investment and reform delivers the system-wide…15 Jan 2025HANSARD Health and Social Care: Winter UpdateI strongly agree with my hon. Friend. The way that Conservative Members continue to behave should send a message to every resident doctor, and indeed every member of health and…15 Jan 2025HANSARD Health and Social Care: Winter UpdateIt is irresponsible, as well as inaccurate, to suggest that the Government have taken winter fuel payments away from vulnerable pensioners. In fact, it is thanks to the decisions…15 Jan 2025HANSARD Health and Social Care: Winter UpdateMy hon. Friend is absolutely right about the challenge caused by the Conservatives’ failure on general practice, which has placed pressure not just on stretched GPs, of whom there…15 Jan 2025HANSARD Health and Social Care: Winter UpdateI will take that as another representation from the hon. Gentleman on the new hospital programme, and I reassure him we will be setting out our review and its conclusions shortly.15 Jan 2025HANSARD Health and Social Care: Winter UpdateI am happy to report that people will not have to wait three years for action on social care. In fact, we have seen lots of it in the last six months. We have had the biggest…15 Jan 2025HANSARD Health and Social Care: Winter UpdateThat is an excellent question from my hon. Friend. This Government have been walking the talk on primary care since we came into office. There was an immediate release of funding,…15 Jan 2025HANSARD Health and Social Care: Winter UpdateI am grateful to the Chair of the Select Committee for her questions. I cannot give her a commitment to publish those statistics ahead of the next NHS England board, but I can…15 Jan 2025HANSARD Health and Social Care: Winter UpdateI thank my hon. Friend for that question. The conditions she describes at her local hospital are truly shocking. As I have said, and this is often quoted by the SNP, all roads…15 Jan 2025HANSARD Health and Social Care: Winter UpdateI wholeheartedly agree with my hon. Friend, and thank her for the work she has been doing this winter on the NHS frontline, providing support to her colleagues at her local…15 Jan 2025HANSARD Health and Social Care: Winter UpdateI thank the Liberal Democrat spokesperson for her usual constructive contribution to proceedings. She is absolutely right to raise the issue of variation in performance across…15 Jan 2025HANSARD Health and Social Care: Winter UpdateWhen I was sitting on the Opposition Benches at the tail end of the last Parliament, I saw my predecessor at this Dispatch Box telling us all the wonderful things that she thought…15 Jan 2025HANSARD Health and Social Care: Winter UpdateWhere to begin, Madam Deputy Speaker? The shadow Health Secretary does a really good line in diagnosing the problem as if these are somehow new facts to him, or to the country. In…15 Jan 2025HANSARDAccess to Primary CareI think the shadow Minister will find that GPs welcome the £889 million uplift announced just before Christmas. That is the biggest boost to general practice in years. It is part…07 Jan 2025HANSARDAccess to Primary CareThank you, Mr Speaker. I would be delighted for my hon. Friend to meet me or the relevant Minister. The NHS has a statutory duty to ensure sufficient services in each local area,…07 Jan 2025HANSARDTopical QuestionsI am delighted to have my hon. Friend and his experience in the House, standing up for his community and giving us his advice and wisdom as we develop our 10-year plan. We are…07 Jan 2025HANSARDTopical QuestionsThe hon. Member is right to raise cases where there are multiple comorbidities or complex conditions requiring a range of care services. That is why we need to design services…07 Jan 2025HANSARDTopical QuestionsI welcome the former Prime Minister’s question, and he is right to commend the research. We are actively looking at it. Given that he is here and that we are currently taking…07 Jan 2025HANSARDTopical QuestionsI was in Cumbria recently, and I was struck by the fact that the care home I visited in Carlisle is delivering great intermediate care for the NHS at half the price of a hospital…07 Jan 2025HANSARDTopical QuestionsYes, I or the Minister of State for Health would be delighted to meet the hon. Member. She is right to describe the scale of challenge in urgent and emergency care. Of course,…07 Jan 2025