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HANSARDNHS DentistryI totally agree with my hon. Friend. Prevention is better than cure. It is a truism, and it is also the foundation pillar of what would be Labour’s 10-year plan for reform and…09 Jan 2024HANSARDNHS DentistryI agree with the hon. Gentleman about the urgency of the situation. There is a different path available to us. We can revive our public services and give our country back what we…09 Jan 2024HANSARDNHS DentistryI must make some progress. Turning to other parts of the country, Keir Cozens, Labour’s candidate in Great Yarmouth, has been running a campaign on the state of dentistry in Great…09 Jan 2024HANSARDNHS DentistryI beg to move, That this House recognises that NHS dentistry is in crisis, with eight in 10 dentists in England not taking on new NHS patients and vast parts of the country…09 Jan 2024HANSARDNHS DentistryI totally agree with my hon. Friend. We have heard so many heartbreaking stories like the one she mentions from her constituency. A service that once was there for all of us when…09 Jan 2024HANSARDNHS DentistryI will, so that the hon. Gentleman can explain why that is the case.09 Jan 2024HANSARDNHS DentistryThe sound you can hear, Mr Speaker, is the scraping of the barrel. How has the hon. Gentleman got the brass neck to stand up, after 14 years of his party in government, and say…09 Jan 2024HANSARDNHS DentistryIt is deeply disappointing. Let me assure the hon. Gentleman that as with the last Labour Government—13 years that created a rising tide that lifted all ships across the country,…09 Jan 2024HANSARDNHS DentistryI wholeheartedly agree with my hon. Friend. In fact, he has the ability, as the Labour MP for Stockton North, to speak for his residents. If only other people across the country…09 Jan 2024HANSARDNHS DentistryI strongly agree with my right hon. Friend. Things are so desperate. He mentioned the south-west in particular, and Devon and Cornwall have been particularly poorly served. Jayne…09 Jan 2024HANSARDNHS DentistryI agree. I am afraid that when it comes to serving personnel and veterans, there is a gulf between what the Government say and promise and what they do; that is not the only…09 Jan 2024HANSARDNHS DentistryI totally agree. In fact, Claire Hazelgrove, Labour’s candidate in Filton and Bradley Stoke—next-door to the forthcoming by-election—was telling me about problems in her…09 Jan 2024HANSARDNHS DentistryI totally agree, and I do not think we should be complacent about this as a country. The NHS is already becoming a two-tier healthcare system, where those who can afford to go…09 Jan 2024HANSARDNHS DentistryI totally agree. The tragedy is that if we look at the system as a whole and think about the pressure the whole system is under, and if we got NHS dentistry right, we would not…09 Jan 2024HANSARDNHS Winter UpdatePatients are sick and tired of waiting—waiting for ambulances, waiting for a GP appointment, waiting for their operation and waiting for a general election that cannot come soon…08 Jan 2024HANSARDNHS Winter UpdateI thank the Secretary of State for advance site of her statement and wish her and the whole House a happy new year. Unfortunately, the NHS is beginning 2024 the same way it ended…08 Jan 2024HANSARDBuilding an NHS Fit for the FutureI thank my hon. Friend for her intervention. As I make progress through my speech I will come back to the breath-taking complacency about mental health we heard from the Minister…13 Nov 2023HANSARDBuilding an NHS Fit for the FutureI congratulate the Minister on being the great survivor of the Department of Health and Social Care. She must surely be due a carriage clock or the long service medal by now. The…13 Nov 2023HANSARDBuilding an NHS Fit for the FutureI am very grateful to the hon. Member for his intervention. I am deeply concerned about the situation facing children with cystic fibrosis in particular, given that there is…13 Nov 2023HANSARDBuilding an NHS Fit for the FutureThe Minister says, “Is that it?”. It is 700,000 more NHS dentistry appointments than her Government are providing. It is ridiculous. The extent to which Ministers continue to…13 Nov 2023