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Seven-day NHS Services — House of Commons, 2015-10-13
Topic: Health
Jeremy Richard Streynsham Hunt (Conservative, Centre-right): Let me give the hon. Lady the facts. According to an independent study conducted by The BMJ, there are 11,000 excess deaths because we do not staff our hospitals properly at weekends. I think it is my job, and the Government’s job, to deal with that, and to stand up for patients The hon. Lady talked about being constructive. There is something constructive that she can do, which is to join the Royal College of Surgeons, the Royal College of Physicians and the Royal College of Nursing, and urge members of the British Medical Association not to strike but to negotiate, which is the sensible, constructive thing to do. Will the hon. Lady tell them to do that?
Seven-day NHS Services — House of Commons, 2015-10-13
Topic: Health
Peter William Bone (Conservative, Centre-right): The question is about the seven-day NHS, but there is no point in our having a seven-day NHS if it is not an NHS across the country. I have a constituent with advanced prostate cancer who, as his oncologist says, needs docetaxel chemotherapy. In fact, all east midlands oncologists say that it is needed, but it is not provided by the NHS in my constituency, although it is provided in Birmingham. If we are to have a seven-day NHS, we need treatment across the board. Will the Secretary of State step in and do something about this?
Seven-day NHS Services — House of Commons, 2015-10-13
Topic: Health
Jeremy Richard Streynsham Hunt (Conservative, Centre-right): I will look into the individual case that my hon. Friend has raised, but I think patients recognise that sometimes they need to travel further for the most specialist care, and can receive better care if they do so. However, the way in which what we are doing will help my hon. Friend’s constituents, and other people with cancer, is not just about consultants and junior doctors working at the weekends; it is about seven-day diagnostic tests, which will enable us to get the answers back much more quickly and catch cancers earlier.
Care Costs — House of Commons, 2015-10-13
Topic: Health
Alistair James Hendrie Burt (Conservative, Centre-right): It is not possible for me to talk about what may emerge from the spending round and settlement, but I can say to the hon. Lady that local authorities were given extra finance to implement the Care Act 2014. Some £5.3 billion is available to local authorities to work through the new integrated social care and NHS budget. So we are very conscious of the pressures on local authorities, which need the resources to provide the social care we all expect.
Derriford Hospital — House of Commons, 2015-10-13
Topic: Health
Benedict Gummer (Conservative, Centre-right): I am pleased to refer my hon. Friend to the recent appointments of Ruth Carnall to the role of programme chair and Judith Dean to the role of programme director for the success regime in Northern, Eastern and Western Devon. Together, they will lead an intensive diagnostic exercise within the local health economy, which will develop options for change to be implemented in the new year.
Derriford Hospital — House of Commons, 2015-10-13
Topic: Health
John Luther Mercer (Conservative, Centre-right): Given the news last week that the Northern, Eastern and Western Devon clinical commissioning group that covers my constituency has appointed a special team to ensure the projected £430 million funding shortfall does not become a reality, what can my hon. Friend do to assure my constituents that an already challenged constituency can retain confidence in its health care provision?
Derriford Hospital — House of Commons, 2015-10-13
Topic: Health
Benedict Gummer (Conservative, Centre-right): My hon. Friend rightly points out that there are specific challenges in Northern, Eastern and Western Devon and that is precisely why NHS England has instituted the success regime and why it has moved quickly to appoint a programme director and team. I hope that with the engagement that I know he will lead with his colleagues they will come to a resolution that will ensure that the challenges cease.
NHS: Winter Pressures — House of Commons, 2015-10-13
Topic: Health
Jeremy Richard Streynsham Hunt (Conservative, Centre-right): Some £400 million in resilience money has been invested in the NHS for this winter. Learning from previous years, we have put this money into the NHS baseline for 2015-16 so that the NHS can plan effectively at an earlier stage.
Sue Gray Report — House of Commons, 2022-01-31
Topic: Health
Mohammed Afzal Khan (Labour, Centre-left): I have spoken about my own experience of loss during the pandemic many times. I do not claim that my experience is special—indeed, it has been all too common—but as a member of Parliament I have a responsibility to provide a voice for the bereaved families. Make no mistake, this report is utterly damning and suggests that the Prime Minister’s and the Government’s actions were a risk to public health. How on earth can the Prime Minister stand there and justify this? Does he now accept that his actions were a complete and absolute failure of leadership and judgment?
NHS: Winter Pressures — House of Commons, 2015-10-13
Topic: Health
Jeremy Richard Streynsham Hunt (Conservative, Centre-right): I thank the hon. Lady for her excellent question. I know that the whole House is thinking of Pauline Cafferkey and her family and that it is proud that, under Dr Mike Jacobs and his team, she is getting the most outstanding care that it is possible to get anywhere in the world. We all wish her a speedy recovery. With respect to winter pressures, I know that the Royal Free had a difficult winter but I also know that it has a very good management team and made heroic efforts. I know that the whole team of doctors and nurses will do an excellent job, and we will want to support them in any way we can.
NHS: Winter Pressures — House of Commons, 2015-10-13
Topic: Health
David Arthur Stephen Tredinnick (Conservative, Centre-right): As part of my right hon. Friend’s plans for dealing with winter pressures, will he look at making greater use of the 63,000 practitioners on the Professional Standards Authority’s 17 accredited registers covering 25 occupations? Has he found time yet to read the authority’s report, "Accredited Registers—Ensuring that health and care practitioners are competent and safe"?
NHS: Winter Pressures — House of Commons, 2015-10-13
Topic: Health
Philip Thomas Hollobone (Conservative, Centre-right): Kettering general hospital, the local clinical commissioning group and the Government are all agreed that the best way to help the NHS in north Northamptonshire to cope with pressures all year round, including in the winter, would be to develop a £30 million urgent care hub at Kettering general hospital. That project is with Monitor. What can the Secretary of State do to encourage Monitor to speed up its deliberations?
NHS: Winter Pressures — House of Commons, 2015-10-13
Topic: Health
Jeremy Richard Streynsham Hunt (Conservative, Centre-right): Once again, I thank my hon. Friend for his persistent campaigning on behalf of Kettering general hospital. It is a very busy hospital under a great deal of pressure, and I know that people work very hard there. The Under-Secretary of State for Health, my hon. Friend the Member for Ipswich (Ben Gummer), who has responsibility for hospitals, met campaigners from Kettering recently to discuss this issue, and I will bring the matter up with Monitor as well.
Sue Gray Report — House of Commons, 2022-01-31
Topic: Health
Florence Eshalomi (Labour, Centre-left): One of the hardest things I have had to do as an MP is speak to the family of Ismail Mohamed Abdulwahab, who was 13 years old when he died on 30 March 2020. He was one of the youngest people to lose his life to covid. I will admit that when I spoke to his mother, I broke down on the call Ismail’s family, like so many other constituents in Vauxhall, followed the rules. Many of them were scared to go out; many of them had to bury their loved ones without being there; many of them walk past the covid memorial wall in my constituency with that heart showing their loss. Does the Prime Minister now understand, and does he not feel ashamed, that his actions have brought disrepute to the office that he holds?
NHS: Winter Pressures — House of Commons, 2015-10-13
Topic: Health
Jeremy Richard Streynsham Hunt (Conservative, Centre-right): If the hon. Lady looks at what has happened with permanent full-time nursing staff, she will see that the numbers have gone up in our hospitals by 8,000 over the past two years, so there are alternatives. We need to do more to help the NHS in this respect, and I will be announcing something about that shortly.
Medical Exemption Certificates — House of Commons, 2015-10-13
Topic: Health
George William Freeman (Conservative, Centre-right): Medical exemption certificates excluding patients with long-term conditions have been in place since the 1960s. The requirement to renew the certificate every five years has been in place since at least 2002 and we have no plans to review it.
Medical Exemption Certificates — House of Commons, 2015-10-13
Topic: Health
Paul Christopher Maynard (Conservative, Centre-right): The Minister will be aware that, over the summer, there has been media coverage of patients with ongoing and exempt conditions being penalised for not having an up-to-date exemption certificate. Because the renewal period is five years long, the NHS Business Services Authority’s address database gets out of date very quickly and many people have been penalised for inadvertently not renewing their certificate because the database held an out-of-date address for them. What more can be done to assist the authority and the patients, perhaps by introducing a shorter renewal period, and to ensure that this stops occurring?
Sue Gray Report — House of Commons, 2022-01-31
Topic: Health
Luke Pollard (Labour, Centre-left): Paragraph iv of Sue Gray’s general findings states that there is a culture of "excessive consumption of alcohol" and that it is "not appropriate". Is there also a culture of excessive drug taking in Downing Street?
A&E Services (Worcester) — House of Commons, 2015-10-13
Topic: Health
Benedict Gummer (Conservative, Centre-right): Last month, the Department approved a £4 million capital improvement loan for the expansion of the A&E department at Worcestershire Royal hospital and the development of a dedicated discharge lounge. Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust and the local health system will also receive practical support via the emergency care improvement programme to help the trust to address the challenges it has faced in meeting the four-hour A&E waiting time standard.
A&E Services (Worcester) — House of Commons, 2015-10-13
Topic: Health
Robin Caspar Walker (Conservative, Centre-right): I thank the Minister for his reply. I warmly welcome his recent decision to approve the £4 million interim investment in A&E capacity and a new discharge suite at the Worcestershire Royal. As he knows, demand remains very high, and the number of patients being admitted to hospital is close to record levels. May I urge him and his colleagues to look very carefully and urgently at plans for further upgrades, which could deliver much-needed capacity over the coming years?
A&E Services (Worcester) — House of Commons, 2015-10-13
Topic: Health
Benedict Gummer (Conservative, Centre-right): I assure my hon. Friend that we will do so, but he will be conscious that capital plans are the responsibility of individual trusts. I urge his trust to take part fully in the Worcestershire acute review and in other reviews of the west midlands health service. There are challenges, and we will fix the problems only if there are locally sourced solutions, which we will then seek to support.
Sue Gray Report — House of Commons, 2022-01-31
Topic: Health
Michael Whitley (Labour, Centre-left): No one has said in the House this afternoon that 155,000 people died of covid. That is why we introduced the rules. This is simply not the comprehensive report that the British public were promised for so long, but at least it is clear in its findings that there was "a serious failure to observe not just the high standards expected of those working at the heart of Government but also of the standards expected of the entire British population" at the height of the pandemic. Does the Prime Minister accept responsibility for his failure to live up to the standards that the rest of us were expected to uphold?
Sue Gray Report — House of Commons, 2022-01-31
Topic: Health
Barry Strachan Gardiner (Labour, Centre-left): The Gray report is clear that there should be no excessive consumption of alcohol in a workplace. Can the Prime Minister therefore assure the House that his own consumption of alcohol was not excessive and in particular that his judgment was at no time so clouded that he was in danger of telling the truth?
Nurse Training Places — House of Commons, 2015-10-13
Topic: Health
Benedict Gummer (Conservative, Centre-right): The hon. Gentleman should know that the unforgiveable thing was the dereliction of care by a Department of Health under a previous regime. It contributed to short staffing—a significant part of the scandal at Mid Staffs—that we needed to put right in short order. That required an emergency response and agency labour to be employed. We are now putting staffing on a sustainable basis; we were left with short staffing in 2010.
NHS: Consistency in Services and Treatment — House of Commons, 2015-10-13
Topic: Health
George William Freeman (Conservative, Centre-right): The mandate for NHS England sets out our national ambitions for the health service across England. NHS England and the clinical commissioning groups are responsible for working with local providers. To ensure quality and consistency, the Care Quality Commission has developed a set of fundamental standards. The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence also provides a range of guidance and quality standards, and the Department of Health has established the MyNHS website to highlight regional variations and use transparency to drive improvement across the system.
NHS: Consistency in Services and Treatment — House of Commons, 2015-10-13
Topic: Health
Thomas Christopher John Pursglove (Conservative, Centre-right): I thank the Minister for that answer, but earlier this year figures published by Public Health England showed that more people under the age of 75 die from cancer in Corby than anywhere else in England. What steps are Ministers taking to help to improve those rates? They are stubbornly high, and we need to stop the higher prevalence of cancer in our area.
NHS: Consistency in Services and Treatment — House of Commons, 2015-10-13
Topic: Health
George William Freeman (Conservative, Centre-right): My hon. Friend makes an important point. The Government are absolutely committed to world-class cancer care, which is why we put £1 billion into the cancer drugs fund. We have seen a huge 71% increase in cancer referrals, with 40,000 more patients treated, and a new cancer strategy has just been set out. It is true that the incidence of cancer in my hon. Friend’s constituency is regrettably high, and Corby CCG has significantly worse cancer outcomes. That has been recognised and the 2015-16 commissioning plan puts in place a series of measures on cancer, including improving earlier diagnosis, providing treatment within 62-day referral targets and implementing the national cancer survivorship programme.
NHS: Consistency in Services and Treatment — House of Commons, 2015-10-13
Topic: Health
George William Freeman (Conservative, Centre-right): It is a pleasure to take my first question from the hon. Gentleman. I thought I needed my ears cleaning, but I clearly do not. I will happily talk to him about the issue in his constituency, but the truth is that local CCGs are responsible for commissioning local services. I will happily, as a Health Minister, talk to him about what needs to be done.
Organ Donation — House of Commons, 2015-10-13
Topic: Health
Jane Ellison (Conservative, Centre-right): Organ donation rates have increased by about 60% since 2008. The Government give about £60 million a year to NHS Blood and Transplant to support organ donation. NHSBT has a strategy, which it launched in 2013, to take us up to 2020 and increase that figure even further.
Organ Donation — House of Commons, 2015-10-13
Topic: Health
Jane Ellison (Conservative, Centre-right): My hon. Friend is absolutely right to highlight one of the principal difficulties we face, which is people not having a conversation about donation. Even if people are on the organ donor register, their wishes are sometimes overtaken by those of their families at that very difficult moment. He is right to highlight the brilliant work done by SNODs, as well as initiatives such as the one that will happen this Saturday, when the Daily Mail, together with the organ donor register, will produce a publication that will, we hope, stimulate thousands of conversations across the land. Having a conversation about consent is one of the ways we will crack this problem.
NHS: Transparency — House of Commons, 2015-10-13
Topic: Health
Jeremy Richard Streynsham Hunt (Conservative, Centre-right): Last year I launched My NHS, where patients can see how safe their local hospital is and many other things. From next May, there will be overall information on the quality of mental health and cancer care.
Sue Gray Report — House of Commons, 2022-01-31
Topic: Health
Justin Piers Richard Madders (Labour, Centre-left): On 8 December, the Prime Minister told this House: "I have been repeatedly assured since these allegations emerged that there was no party and that no covid rules were broken."—[Official Report, 8 December 2021; Vol. 705, c. 372.] Well, just who gave him those assurances? Given that he was at some of the parties, and at least one of them was in his own flat, he should not need anyone else to tell him what happened, so it looks like when the Prime Minister spoke those words he was fooling himself—or was he just trying to fool everyone else?
NHS: Transparency — House of Commons, 2015-10-13
Topic: Health
Jeremy Richard Streynsham Hunt (Conservative, Centre-right): I agree, and I congratulate the doctors and nurses working in the Cossham maternity unit. Southmead hospital in Bristol has some of the best maternity survival rates in Europe, so there is a lot of very good practice. The way to get the word out is through transparency of outcomes, not endless new targets, so my hon. Friend is absolutely right.
Topical Questions — House of Commons, 2015-10-13
Topic: Health
Jeremy Richard Streynsham Hunt (Conservative, Centre-right): I would like to make a statement on measures the Government are taking to help NHS organisations tackle the deficits by reducing the cost of agency staff. Building on previously announced controls, from the end of November we will introduce maximum shift rates for all clinical staff employed through agencies, which will gradually decrease over time as the measures take effect and demand for agency staff reduces. In addition, we will work with each trust to limit or reduce the overall agency spend. Exceptional breaches of the limits will require advance agreement. Taken together, these measures are expected to improve patient care and reduce NHS agency staff spend by £1 billion over three years. The chief inspector of hospitals has confirmed that he believes this is the right thing to do.
Topical Questions — House of Commons, 2015-10-13
Topic: Health
Jeremy Richard Streynsham Hunt (Conservative, Centre-right): Yes, I do. Let us be clear: this is about patient safety, about which every single doctor and nurse in the NHS is passionate. The problem is that the doctors whom the hon. Lady has met have been misled by their own union. This is not about cutting the pay bill for junior doctors, as the BMA has suggested. This is about safer care at weekends, reducing unsafe hours and doing the right thing for patients, and that is the right thing for doctors as well.
Topical Questions — House of Commons, 2015-10-13
Topic: Health
Questions: It emerged earlier this month that North East Lincolnshire CCG was operating a primary care incentive scheme intended to reduce outpatient referrals. Understandably, this has met with a hostile reception from my constituents, who fear it may affect decisions on their care. Will Ministers look into this scheme and either offer some reassurance or instruct the CCG to reconsider?
Alistair James Hendrie Burt (Conservative, Centre-right): The north Lincolnshire scheme is designed to try to encourage doctors to make sure that there are no inappropriate referrals to secondary care; it is not designed to prevent appropriate ones. Over the past five years we have seen an increase of 600,000 in urgent referrals for cancer care, for example. We want to see that continue. It will not be helped if there are inappropriate referrals, and that is what the scheme is about.
Topical Questions — House of Commons, 2015-10-13
Topic: Health
Questions: It emerged earlier this month that North East Lincolnshire CCG was operating a primary care incentive scheme intended to reduce outpatient referrals. Understandably, this has met with a hostile reception from my constituents, who fear it may affect decisions on their care. Will Ministers look into this scheme and either offer some reassurance or instruct the CCG to reconsider?
Jeremy Richard Streynsham Hunt (Conservative, Centre-right): I will take no lessons on transparency from the Opposition. Professor Sir Brian Jarman said that the Department of Health under Labour was a "denial machine" when it came to the problems of Mid Staffs. We have made the NHS more transparent than ever before, and we will continue to practise transparency.
Topical Questions — House of Commons, 2015-10-13
Topic: Health
Questions: It emerged earlier this month that North East Lincolnshire CCG was operating a primary care incentive scheme intended to reduce outpatient referrals. Understandably, this has met with a hostile reception from my constituents, who fear it may affect decisions on their care. Will Ministers look into this scheme and either offer some reassurance or instruct the CCG to reconsider?
Jeremy Richard Streynsham Hunt (Conservative, Centre-right): We are making good progress and we expect to make a substantive announcement on that before the end of the year. That will be about improving the standard and the quality of care in A and E departments, which I know my hon. Friend has a great interest in, and removing the confusion that people feel about what precisely the NHS offer is in their area. It is looking good and I hope to have something to announce to the House before too long.