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HANSARDAccess to Primary CareI am grateful to the hon. Member for that question. I am incredibly sorry about the awful conditions in which staff in that practice are having to see patients and in which the…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 2025HANSARDAccess to Primary CareToday there are 1,399 fewer full-time equivalent GPs than in 2015, and NHS dentistry is at death’s door. This Government will fix the front door to the NHS. We have announced an…07 Jan 2025HANSARDAccess to Primary CareMy hon. Friend has been raising these issues with me since before he was elected to this place on behalf of the communities he represents. As I said to my hon. Friend the Member…07 Jan 2025HANSARDHealth and Adult Social Care ReformOnce again, the arsonist is complaining that the fire brigade is not doing a quick enough job. We are a bit sick of it on the Government Benches, but we are at least rolling up…06 Jan 2025HANSARDHealth and Adult Social Care ReformI strongly agree with my hon. Friend, who has done much already in the past six months to champion social care. Whether people are in residential care home settings or we are…06 Jan 2025HANSARDHealth and Adult Social Care ReformI am very grateful for that question for two reasons. First, it gives me the chance once again to say that the first part of the Casey commission will be reporting next year, so…06 Jan 2025HANSARDHealth and Adult Social Care ReformBrevity was not my hon. Friend’s new year’s resolution, but at your encouraging, Mr Speaker, it is mine. We will provide more training to care professionals to deliver a wider…06 Jan 2025HANSARDHealth and Adult Social Care ReformIt seems to be the Conservative line across the board now to say, “You’ve had 14 years in opposition, so why haven’t you sorted it all out in six months?” I say gently that the…06 Jan 2025HANSARDHealth and Adult Social Care ReformThe right hon. Gentleman is right to say that we need a debate as a country about the balance of financial contribution between the individual, the family and the state. I well…06 Jan 2025HANSARDHealth and Adult Social Care ReformFurther to the previous question, we will be refreshing and updating the NHS workforce plan alongside the long-term plan that we will publish in May, and my hon. Friend is right…06 Jan 2025HANSARDHealth and Adult Social Care ReformI am so grateful to my hon. Friend for her question and for championing that issue since she arrived in the House six months ago. The disabled facilities grant is not just about…06 Jan 2025HANSARDHealth and Adult Social Care ReformI wholeheartedly agree with my hon. Friend, who has done much to bang the drum on this issue during the six months in which she has been a Member of this House. That is why we are…06 Jan 2025HANSARDHealth and Adult Social Care ReformPersistence pays off: I would be happy to receive representations from the hon. Member about his local hospital and the potential to provide more community diagnostics. On the…06 Jan 2025HANSARDHealth and Adult Social Care ReformThe ministerial team and I have enjoyed working with counterparts in the devolved Governments over the last six months, and we will continue to do that. Thanks to the decisions…06 Jan 2025HANSARDHealth and Adult Social Care ReformI thank my hon. Friend for that question. I am a proud member of Unison, and I am proud of its work to stand up for its workforce in the social care sector. She and Unison are…06 Jan 2025HANSARDHealth and Adult Social Care ReformBefore Christmas—I appreciate that it was just before, but I wanted to get out the certainty to general practitioners before we all went off for Christmas—we announced the biggest…06 Jan 2025HANSARDGeneral Practice: Investment and Reform Package 2025-26General practice is the cornerstone of our national health service, providing essential care to communities day in, day out, managing pressures across the healthcare system, and…06 Jan 2025HANSARDHealth and Adult Social Care ReformI warmly congratulate Professor Richard Field on his clinical leadership, which has made a difference to countless lives, not only in my hon. Friend’s part of London but because…06 Jan 2025HANSARDHealth and Adult Social Care ReformI thank my hon. Friend for the work that she does on the NHS frontline, particularly when Parliament is in recess but often alongside her everyday work as a Member of this House.…06 Jan 2025