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HANSARD NHS: Long-term StrategyI cannot believe that the Member for Dover and Deal seems to be standing up and telling her constituents that when it comes to the NHS they have never had it so good. I know she…11 Jan 2023HANSARD NHS: Long-term StrategyUnlike the Government, we are happy to look at good ideas wherever they come from. I do not know whether I can make 18 January, but I am certainly happy to meet the hon. Gentleman…11 Jan 2023HANSARD NHS: Long-term StrategyMy hon. Friend is absolutely right. We are spending £3 billion on agency costs that would surely be better spent on ensuring that we have a serious workforce plan, and on hospital…11 Jan 2023HANSARD NHS: Long-term StrategyMy hon. Friend brings me neatly to the argument that I want to make about minimum service levels. Let me tell the Health Secretary who they are talking about when the Government…11 Jan 2023HANSARD NHS: Long-term StrategyNo, because I must conclude my speech now. So many other Members want to speak that it would be unfair to take up more of their time. This year marks the 75th anniversary of the…11 Jan 2023HANSARD NHS: Long-term StrategyI will give way to my hon. Friend the Member for Wallasey (Dame Angela Eagle), who has been waiting.11 Jan 2023HANSARD NHS: Long-term StrategyI beg to move, That this House condemns the Government for failing to recognise the current crisis in the National Health Service; regrets that, as a result of Government…11 Jan 2023HANSARD NHS: Long-term StrategyI wholeheartedly agree. We hear this time and again. When patients are struggling to get access, and experiencing appalling delays in accident and emergency, they do not blame the…11 Jan 2023HANSARD NHS: Long-term StrategyI find it astonishing. The hon. Gentleman’s position seems to be this: the Government have a plan, after 13 years, and apparently that plan is in progress. So why is it that so…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 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 2023HANSARDNHS Winter PressuresHappy new year to you, Mr Speaker, and to the rest of the House. I thank the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care for advance sight of his statement. This winter has seen…09 Jan 2023HANSARDStrep A Treatments: SupplyMay I wish you, Mr Speaker, and all staff of the House a merry Christmas? I also thank the hon. Member for St Albans (Daisy Cooper) for securing this urgent question. I put on…19 Dec 2022HANSARDNHS Industrial Action: Government PreparationsThank you, Mr Speaker, for granting this urgent question. The power to stop these strikes likes squarely with the Government and the Secretary of State. The Royal College of…12 Dec 2022HANSARDNHS Industrial Action: Government Preparations(Urgent Question): To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care if he will make a statement on Government preparations for industrial action in the NHS.12 Dec 2022HANSARDNHS WorkforceMy hon. Friend is absolutely right. One reason why this country has much poorer cancer outcomes than many comparable economies is precisely because of late diagnosis. I know from…06 Dec 2022HANSARDNHS WorkforceI am grateful for that intervention. We are in the worst of all worlds on immigration and the NHS. The Government try to have it both ways. They talk tough on rhetoric, so we end…06 Dec 2022HANSARDNHS WorkforceThat was a reprehensible thing to say and it shows how desperately the Government are scraping the barrel to make excuses for their negligence and mismanagement of the NHS. As I…06 Dec 2022HANSARDNHS WorkforceI beg to move, That this House recognises that the National Health Service is facing the worst workforce crisis in its history with a shortage of 9,000 hospital doctors and 50,000…06 Dec 2022HANSARDTopical QuestionsThe chairman of the Conservative party claims that NHS strikes are exactly what Vladimir Putin wants, so why is not the Health Secretary negotiating to prevent them from going…06 Dec 2022