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HANSARDHealth and Adult Social Care ReformBy definition, an elective recovery plan for England does not include Wales. However, I can assure the hon. Lady that we have a great working relationship with Jeremy Miles, the…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 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 2025HANSARDHealth and Adult Social Care ReformOf the many great possibilities and opportunities facing this country are our strengths in life sciences and medical technology. If we can combine the strength of our scientific…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 ReformI am grateful for that question. I am not sure that the level of exploitation in either independent healthcare or adult social care mirrors what we have seen, disgracefully, in…06 Jan 2025HANSARDHealth and Adult Social Care ReformI am grateful for that thoughtful question. Let me say two things to the right hon. Gentleman. The first relates to the wider fiscal pressures on the Chancellor. I find it…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 ReformWe had a referendum and two subsequent general elections on the issue of Brexit, and I can tell the hon. Gentleman that none of those three democratic events went the way that I…06 Jan 2025HANSARDHealth and Adult Social Care ReformMy hon. Friend is right, and that is why the vaccination campaign has been so important this winter. He is also right about the importance of community-based teams. One of the…06 Jan 2025HANSARDHealth and Adult Social Care ReformThanks to the decisions taken by the Chancellor in the Budget, we are boosting the spending power of local authorities significantly, and £880 million has been ringfenced…06 Jan 2025HANSARDHealth and Adult Social Care ReformI was grateful to staff at Derriford hospital for showing me at first hand the emergency department pressures when I visited just before Christmas. I have also visited Derriford…06 Jan 2025HANSARDHealth and Adult Social Care ReformSome of the new capacity announced in today’s elective reform plan will come through the independent sector, and some of that new capacity will be in the NHS. It is our ambition…06 Jan 2025HANSARDHealth and Adult Social Care ReformI can definitely reassure the right hon. Gentleman that the Deputy Prime Minister and I are working very closely on this issue, which is close to her heart; she has a huge amount…06 Jan 2025HANSARDHealth and Adult Social Care ReformThat is an excellent question. Having put in place funding to ensure that there are 1,000 more GPs on the frontline before April, and having announced just before Christmas a…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 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 ReformA happy new year to you, Mr Speaker, and to everyone across the House. With your permission, I will give an update on health and adult social care reform. I start by paying…06 Jan 2025HANSARDHealth and Adult Social Care ReformIt does. I was talking about the fact that working class people are often left behind in a two-tier system where those who can afford it pay to go private, and those who cannot…06 Jan 2025HANSARDHealth and Adult Social Care ReformI am grateful to my hon. Friend for his question. That is why in the Budget the Chancellor delivered a big uplift in the spending power of local authorities, with £880 million…06 Jan 2025