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HANSARDNHS Workforce ExpansionWill the Minister give way?28 Feb 2023HANSARDNHS Workforce ExpansionPerhaps the hon. Member can tell us.28 Feb 2023HANSARDNHS Workforce ExpansionLet us be clear about this: I have never disputed GPs’ expertise or the important role that they play in diagnosis. But if the hon. Member thinks GPs are so fantastic, why are…28 Feb 2023HANSARDNHS Workforce ExpansionI am grateful beyond words for that intervention. I will outline Labour’s plans immediately and return to the right hon. Gentleman’s challenge—proposing a social insurance…28 Feb 2023HANSARDNHS Workforce ExpansionMy hon. Friend is absolutely right, and it is why current staff in the NHS are right to say that retention is urgent and that we need measures from the Government immediately to…28 Feb 2023HANSARDNHS Workforce ExpansionI wholeheartedly agree. It is why we are in the worst of all situations: the shortage of staff means not only that patients are receiving poorer care, but that we are paying over…28 Feb 2023HANSARDNHS Strikes(Urgent Question) : To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care if he will make a statement on the NHS strikes.06 Feb 2023HANSARDNHS StrikesOnce.06 Feb 2023HANSARDNHS StrikesYes, yes!06 Feb 2023HANSARDNHS StrikesThis week will see the biggest strike in the history of the NHS, with nurses, ambulance workers and physiotherapists all driven to walk out. Some 88,000 appointments, including…06 Feb 2023HANSARDUrgent and Emergency Care Recovery PlanI thank the Secretary of State for advance sight of his statement. After 13 years of Conservative mismanagement, patients are waiting longer than ever before. Heart attack and…30 Jan 2023HANSARD Equal Marriage: Church of EnglandNothing made it harder for me to come out as a gay Anglican than the Church’s teaching on sexual orientation and human sexuality. In the end, I made the choice that I think many…24 Jan 2023HANSARDTopical QuestionsLabour founded the NHS to be free at the point of use, and we want to keep it that way. Given that the Prime Minister has advocated charging for GP appointments, and one of the…24 Jan 2023HANSARDTopical QuestionsI note that the Secretary of State did not rule out any future extension of user charging, and I am sure that patients will have noticed too. Given that the chief executive of NHS…24 Jan 2023HANSARD NHS: Long-term StrategyI am grateful for the right hon. Gentleman’s intervention, because it brings me directly to the Government’s amendment to the motion, which is not a plan but a litany of excuses…11 Jan 2023HANSARD NHS: Long-term StrategyI wholeheartedly agree with my hon. Friend—avoidable and preventable. The Chancellor wrote an entire book about getting the number of preventable deaths down to zero, because that…11 Jan 2023HANSARD NHS: Long-term StrategyThe Government do not have a plan, but perhaps the right hon. Gentleman will surprise me by telling me, against all hope and expectation, that they do.11 Jan 2023HANSARD NHS: Long-term StrategyMy hon. Friend has consistently made the powerful case that pay and terms and conditions are directly linked to retention. No wonder we are losing so many people, not just from…11 Jan 2023HANSARD NHS: Long-term StrategyMy hon. Friend has campaigned so determinedly on the issue, and she is absolutely right. When I spoke about self-referral in an interview with The Times , it was partly with…11 Jan 2023HANSARD NHS: Long-term StrategyI have to make progress. I know that Conservative MPs were not interested in speaking in this debate, but many Labour Members were. We cannot continue pouring money into…11 Jan 2023