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HANSARD NHS Performance: Darzi InvestigationI am delighted that the shadow Secretary of State has so generously given way. I am not going to pre-empt the Chancellor’s announcements at the Budget and the spending review, but…07 Oct 2024HANSARD NHS Performance: Darzi InvestigationI must begin to conclude my remarks, Madam Deputy Speaker, but I see that the Chair of the Select Committee on Health and Social Care is seeking my eye. Given that I will be…07 Oct 2024HANSARD NHS Performance: Darzi InvestigationThe shadow Secretary of State says that it is nonsense. She is very upset about it, so let me point out to her that earlier this year, the Conservative former dentistry Minister,…07 Oct 2024HANSARD NHS Performance: Darzi InvestigationI strongly agree. Although health is devolved, I look forward to working constructively and closely with Governments right across the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern…07 Oct 2024HANSARD NHS Performance: Darzi InvestigationI am grateful to the hon. Member for her intervention. I wish that this was a challenge only in her constituency; it is a challenge right across the country. As I said to the…07 Oct 2024HANSARD NHS Performance: Darzi InvestigationI am grateful to my hon. Friend for his intervention. Of course it is not just in Loughborough that we have a challenge with access to general practice; it is right across the…07 Oct 2024HANSARD NHS Performance: Darzi InvestigationI am grateful to the hon. Member for her question. No, I do not think that the take-up rate is where it should be. That is why in the short time we have been in office we have put…07 Oct 2024HANSARD NHS: Independent InvestigationI am really grateful to my hon. Friend for her question. She has a huge amount of expertise in health and care, and she is absolutely right about the need for that shift. I have…12 Sept 2024HANSARD NHS: Independent InvestigationAbsolutely. I thank the hon. Member for the way she put her question. I send my deepest condolences to Sophie’s family on what will inevitably be a difficult day—I suspect just…12 Sept 2024HANSARD NHS: Independent InvestigationI thank the hon. Gentleman for his constructive approach. The tragedy of the Health and Care Act 2022 was that a large part of its focus was on trying to correct the enormous…12 Sept 2024HANSARD NHS: Independent InvestigationMy hon. Friend, who I am delighted to see representing Bassetlaw, is already showing herself to be an outstanding champion for her community. She raises a really good challenge…12 Sept 2024HANSARD NHS: Independent InvestigationI can absolutely reassure the hon. Member that RAAC-impacted hospitals are a priority. We are putting safety first, and it is just a shame that when his residents had a Prime…12 Sept 2024HANSARD NHS: Independent InvestigationMy hon. Friend is absolutely right. We need to make sure that we have the right staff in the right place and an equitable distribution of access to NHS services right across the…12 Sept 2024HANSARD NHS: Independent InvestigationThe first word that the shadow Secretary of State for Health and Social Care should have said was “sorry”. She says that she never pretended everything was fixed, and that is…12 Sept 2024HANSARD NHS: Independent InvestigationI didn’t say anything!12 Sept 2024HANSARD NHS: Independent InvestigationWith permission, I would like to make a statement on Lord Darzi’s investigation into the NHS. Unlike the last holders of this office, this Government will be honest about the…12 Sept 2024HANSARD NHS: Independent InvestigationNHS staff did not break the NHS—the Conservatives did—and this Labour Government will mobilise them to help fix it.12 Sept 2024HANSARD NHS: Independent InvestigationMy hon. Friend is absolutely right that our country has stark health inequalities. It is not right that people who live in different parts of the country have such different…12 Sept 2024HANSARD NHS: Independent InvestigationHow refreshing to have constructive opposition in the Chamber. It was clear throughout the election campaign that my party and the Liberal Democrats have much in common, both in…12 Sept 2024HANSARD NHS: Independent InvestigationFor all the innovations that modern technology will bring—the revolution in big data AI, machine learning and medical advances that we will see very soon but can scarcely imagine…12 Sept 2024