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HANSARD Junior Doctors’ StrikesMore than 300,000 operations and appointments have been cancelled due to industrial action in the NHS since December. The strikes planned for next month will be longer than any…30 Mar 2023HANSARDTopical QuestionsWhen nurses and paramedics voted to take strike action, the Secretary of State refused to negotiate and said that the pay review body’s decision was final. He has now U-turned,…07 Mar 2023HANSARDDoctor NumbersI am afraid that talk is cheap. I was at Worcester University’s medical school yesterday, where I was told directly by the vice-chancellor that that university, which has great…07 Mar 2023HANSARDTopical QuestionsI think patients know who to trust, and it is nurses, not the Secretary of State. The Government have still learned nothing: despite a 98% vote in favour of strikes, the Secretary…07 Mar 2023HANSARDNHS Workforce ExpansionThere are a couple of challenges with that approach. First—I want to be clear about this—having international students come to study at UK universities is a wonderful thing. It is…28 Feb 2023HANSARDNHS Workforce ExpansionI beg to move, That this House condemns the Government’s failure to train enough staff to tackle the worst workforce crisis in the history of the National Health Service with a…28 Feb 2023HANSARDNHS Workforce ExpansionI wholeheartedly agree with my hon. Friend. Unless the NHS has the staff it needs, patients will not get the timely care they deserve. It really is as simple as that. We have a…28 Feb 2023HANSARDNHS Workforce ExpansionI am glad that finally Government Members have noticed that Labour has got a plan and are asking how it will work; I wish that Government Ministers would join in. The proposal we…28 Feb 2023HANSARDNHS Workforce ExpansionI am almost certain that the hon. Member for Wellingborough (Mr Bone) will not agree with his universities Minister.28 Feb 2023HANSARDNHS Workforce ExpansionI wholeheartedly agree with the hon. Member. I will talk about this later in my speech, but it is why the Government have to resolve this pay dispute with existing NHS staff. The…28 Feb 2023HANSARDNHS Workforce ExpansionI am happy to give way to the hon. Member again, but may I gently suggest that he would be better off lobbying current rather than future Ministers?28 Feb 2023HANSARDNHS Workforce ExpansionI am delighted that the hon. Member asks. I had a good meeting with the British Medical Association pensions committee recently. There are a number of ways in which this matter…28 Feb 2023HANSARDNHS Workforce ExpansionMy hon. Friend is absolutely right. I very much enjoyed my visit to Leeds with the shadow Chancellor to look at the work the acute trust is doing with Leeds City Council to speed…28 Feb 2023HANSARDNHS Workforce ExpansionI apologise for keeping my hon. Friend bobbing—the last thing the NHS needs is another patient, so I hope the exercise has been good for his joints rather than the straw that…28 Feb 2023HANSARDNHS Workforce ExpansionThe hon. Gentleman is absolutely right, and I have been following his work and that of the all-party parliamentary group on radiotherapy in this area, because he raises issues…28 Feb 2023HANSARDNHS Workforce ExpansionWell, I need the help of the hon. Gentleman and Conservative Members, because my pleas seem to be falling on deaf ears. That is why I have taken the trouble to circulate this…28 Feb 2023HANSARDNHS Workforce ExpansionI wholeheartedly agree with my hon. Friend. We delivered the highest levels of patient satisfaction in the history of the national health service. Now patient satisfaction is at…28 Feb 2023HANSARDNHS Workforce ExpansionI wholeheartedly agree with my hon. Friend. This really is the crux of it after 13 years of Conservative Government: either the NHS is in the mess it is in today through…28 Feb 2023HANSARDNHS Workforce ExpansionI am really grateful to my hon. Friend. He is absolutely right to talk about the mental health workforce. Labour is committed to an extra 8,500 mental health workers, which would…28 Feb 2023HANSARDNHS Workforce ExpansionWill the Minister give way?28 Feb 2023