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Wales Bill — House of Lords, 2016-11-07
Topic: Domestic Commerce
Dafydd Wynne Wigley (Plaid Cymru, Centre-left to left): The noble Lord very kindly talked of our consistency on these matters; I also respect his consistency on them from 1979 onwards. Can I press him on the point that he made about exercisable powers? The next bank of amendments will talk about a new exercisable power to have a capital investment fund. Without some ability to vary taxation, how does the noble Lord square that circle or does he not support the demand for a greater capital expenditure fund?
Wales Bill — House of Lords, 2016-11-07
Topic: Mixed Topics
Dafydd Wynne Wigley (Plaid Cymru, Centre-left to left): My Lords, I thank everyone who contributed to this short debate and am grateful for the positive spirit and in particular for the response of the Minister. I had hoped that he would say that the powers that already exist are not in any way diluted or diverted by virtue of the Bill. The Minister mentioned legislation. I should clarify that it was not my intention that the National Assembly should legislate for what happens in Chubut—obviously not—but there are Executive actions which support the language, and it is the continuation of those that I wish. Given the assurances that the Minister has given, and assuming that he does not find any snag that he has not seen so far, I beg leave to withdraw the amendment.
Wales Bill — House of Lords, 2016-12-14
Topic: Mixed Topics
Dafydd Wynne Wigley (Plaid Cymru, Centre-left to left): I am grateful to the Minister, who is repeating—quite understandably—the points he made in Committee. However, I pray in aid the comments made by the noble Baroness, Lady Morgan of Ely, with regard to the benefits of having something written in the Bill. Other declaratory points are included in the Bill—for example, the permanence of the Assembly. That is a declaration and there is no reason at all why there should be not that clear declaration. But it goes further than that. It goes to the question of the total control of reservoirs in Wales—every aspect of them should be under the control of the Assembly. Is the Minister saying that they are?
Wales Bill — House of Lords, 2016-12-14
Topic: Mixed Topics
Dafydd Wynne Wigley (Plaid Cymru, Centre-left to left): I thank those who have taken part in this debate, including the noble Baronesses, Lady Morgan and Lady Randerson, the noble Lords, Lord Crickhowell and Lord Hain, and, of course, the Minister. On Milford Haven, I think that there is a feeling across the House that there is a greater role for the National Assembly and the Welsh Government in this matter, particularly when one considers that they have responsibility for the safety and civil emergency aspects. There are questions of coherence in manpower planning, in transportation and road planning and in the economic infrastructure of the whole area. None the less, we note the points that the Minister made and it appears that we will have to agree to differ on this. I thank the Minister for government Amendments 54 and 55 on fisheries, which are a response to amendments we tabled in Committee and which will be welcome in Wales. On that basis, I beg leave to withdraw the amendment.
Wales Bill — House of Lords, 2016-12-14
Topic: Mixed Topics
Dafydd Wynne Wigley (Plaid Cymru, Centre-left to left): My Lords, I am grateful to everyone who has taken part in this debate. I have noted the replies given to the various subjects that have arisen. I still feel very strongly that some of the powers that Scotland has regarding the Crown Estate are powers that we should have as well, but clearly we are not going to make much progress on that today. I also suspect that we will come back to the diverse matters that we have discussed, including the gambling questions and possible legislation. On the basis of the debate, though, I beg leave to withdraw the amendment.
Mental Health Care (Pregnant Women) — House of Commons, 2015-01-13
Topic: Health
Questions: What steps he is taking to improve mental health care for pregnant women and new mothers in (a) Peterborough and (b) England; and if he will make a statement.
Daniel Leonard James Poulter (Conservative, Centre-right): The Government have prioritised improving mental health care and support for pregnant women and new mothers in its mandate to NHS England, with a clear objective to reduce the incidence and impact of post-natal depression. In order to implement the Government’s priority to improve perinatal mental health services, Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust is working closely with local authority commissioners in Peterborough to develop a joint perinatal mental health strategy to improve care for women.
Mental Health Care (Pregnant Women) — House of Commons, 2015-01-13
Topic: Health
Questions: What steps he is taking to improve mental health care for pregnant women and new mothers in (a) Peterborough and (b) England; and if he will make a statement.
Stewart Jackson (Conservative, Centre-right): The Maternal Mental Health Alliance has estimated that the long-term cost of mental health care for new mothers is £8 billion, which is perhaps not unconnected to the fact that only 3% of clinical commissioning groups have a perinatal mental health strategy. Does the Minister think that this is a very serious issue and needs immediate action?
Mental Health Care (Pregnant Women) — House of Commons, 2015-01-13
Topic: Health
Questions: What steps he is taking to improve mental health care for pregnant women and new mothers in (a) Peterborough and (b) England; and if he will make a statement.
Daniel Leonard James Poulter (Conservative, Centre-right): My hon. Friend is absolutely right to highlight the challenges posed by perinatal mental illness. The damage it does to women’s lives, and indeed to the wider family, was highlighted in the recent independent inquiry into maternal deaths. It is therefore important for the Government to invest, as we are doing, in improved care for the perinatal mental health of women. That is why we have made it a priority for each and every maternity unit to have staff specially trained in perinatal mental health skills by 2017.
Mental Health Care (Pregnant Women) — House of Commons, 2015-01-13
Topic: Health
Questions: What steps he is taking to improve mental health care for pregnant women and new mothers in (a) Peterborough and (b) England; and if he will make a statement.
Daniel Leonard James Poulter (Conservative, Centre-right): The hon. Gentleman makes the important point that there has been an historical disparity between the priorities given to mental health and physical health conditions. That is why we have legislated for parity of esteem between mental and physical health, why we are introducing access targets for patients using mental health services for the first time—that is a big step forward—and why we have increased funding for mental health services by £300 million this year.
Mental Health Care (Pregnant Women) — House of Commons, 2015-01-13
Topic: Health
Questions: What steps he is taking to improve mental health care for pregnant women and new mothers in (a) Peterborough and (b) England; and if he will make a statement.
Maria Frances Lewis Miller (Conservative, Centre-right): In the first few weeks of a child’s life, the mother often visits their general practitioner regularly, so I applaud the Government’s work on recruiting more health visitors and midwives. Does the Minister agree that GPs need to be sharper at identifying post-natal depression in mothers, because it can be so destructive to the lives of both the mother and the child?
Mental Health Care (Pregnant Women) — House of Commons, 2015-01-13
Topic: Health
Questions: What steps he is taking to improve mental health care for pregnant women and new mothers in (a) Peterborough and (b) England; and if he will make a statement.
Daniel Leonard James Poulter (Conservative, Centre-right): My right hon. Friend is absolutely right. A lot of work is going on with the Royal College of General Practitioners and the Royal College of Psychiatrists to improve GP training and skills in mental health more generally. The specific key to this is providing the right early years work force, which is why it is so important that this Government have invested in additional health visitors to give each and every child the best start in life. The latest figures from NHS England show that the number of health visitors has increased by more than 3,000 under this Government.
Mental Health Care (Pregnant Women) — House of Commons, 2015-01-13
Topic: Health
Questions: What steps he is taking to improve mental health care for pregnant women and new mothers in (a) Peterborough and (b) England; and if he will make a statement.
Daniel Leonard James Poulter (Conservative, Centre-right): The hon. Lady makes very important points. I have certainly seen in my clinical practice that some women present when there are domestic violence issues or other issues in the home, and such issues can be heightened and exacerbated during pregnancy. A lot of work is now going on to improve the awareness of all NHS staff of domestic violence and, more broadly across training, of mental health issues.
Mental Health Care (Pregnant Women) — House of Commons, 2015-01-13
Topic: Health
Questions: What steps he is taking to improve mental health care for pregnant women and new mothers in (a) Peterborough and (b) England; and if he will make a statement.
Nicola Blackwood (Conservative, Centre-right): For many people with mental health problems, the first emergency service with which they come into contact at a point of crisis is the police. What steps are the Government taking to ensure that such a crisis is treated as a health crisis, not a criminal incident, and will the Minister undertake to do whatever he can to ensure that no children end up in a police cell as a place of safety?
Mental Health Care (Pregnant Women) — House of Commons, 2015-01-13
Topic: Health
Questions: What steps he is taking to improve mental health care for pregnant women and new mothers in (a) Peterborough and (b) England; and if he will make a statement.
Daniel Leonard James Poulter (Conservative, Centre-right): My hon. Friend makes an important point. It is absolutely right that we do not want people with mental health problems to be looked after in police cells. A lot of work has been going on. The Government have set up the crisis care concordat to look at exactly that issue, and as a result the number of people with mental illness going to police cells is now falling rapidly.
Ambulance Response Times — House of Commons, 2015-01-13
Topic: Health
Jeremy Richard Streynsham Hunt (Conservative, Centre-right): The reforms the hon. Lady mentions mean that we have 9,000 more doctors, 3,000 more nurses and 2,000 more paramedics in the ambulance service. The point is that those reforms are putting money on to the front line, which means that the NHS is better equipped to deal with winter pressures than ever before.
Ambulance Response Times — House of Commons, 2015-01-13
Topic: Health
David Thomas Charles Davies (Conservative, Centre-right): In England around 75% of ambulances meet the target response time, as opposed to 60% in Wales. Will the Minister tell the House why ambulance response times are so much better in England than in the area of the United Kingdom run by the Labour party?
Ambulance Response Times — House of Commons, 2015-01-13
Topic: Health
Jeremy Richard Streynsham Hunt (Conservative, Centre-right): What is so disappointing about the health debate is that Labour Members tour TV studios trying to whip up a sense of crisis in the NHS in England, and then deny that things are even worse in Wales. Services are better in England because we have put more money on to the front line and less into management.
Ambulance Response Times — House of Commons, 2015-01-13
Topic: Health
Jeremy Richard Streynsham Hunt (Conservative, Centre-right): Let me tell the hon. Lady what we are doing—[Interruption.] This is what I think is so shocking: Labour Members are not actually interested in what is happening to avoid precisely the kind of things that the hon. Lady mentioned. We are putting £4.6 million of extra support into the North West ambulance service this winter, and that money is being used to employ more paramedics, to train people so that they can see and treat patients on the spot, and to help more people on the phone so that they do not need an ambulance. The hon. Lady should perhaps have listened to the earlier question, because where Labour is running the ambulance services, results are even worse.
Ambulance Response Times — House of Commons, 2015-01-13
Topic: Health
Jeremy Richard Streynsham Hunt (Conservative, Centre-right): My hon. Friend makes an important point about the way targets are set up. It is possible for ambulance services to hit their targets while not delivering a satisfactory service to the most rural areas, and we have discussed that issue a number of times. Because we are in the middle of a challenging winter, we do not think that now is the right time to review the issue, but he should rest assured that we are keeping it under review.
Ambulance Response Times — House of Commons, 2015-01-13
Topic: Health
Jeremy Richard Streynsham Hunt (Conservative, Centre-right): We investigate deaths and adverse incidents carefully, and the East of England ambulance service got £3.6 million of extra support to help it this winter. Let us look at what is happening in the ambulance service. Year on year, the number of the most serious category A calls—those that need to be answered within eight minutes—has increased by 26% over one year, and the number of ambulances dispatched within eight minutes has increased by 22%. That is 1,900 extra ambulance journeys arriving within eight minutes, which is a record of an ambulance service doing well under a lot of pressure. The right hon. Gentleman should be getting behind the paramedics and ambulance services, not trying to politicise the issue.
GP Appointments — House of Commons, 2015-01-13
Topic: Health
Daniel Leonard James Poulter (Conservative, Centre-right): The latest GP survey results suggest that the majority of patients can get GP appointments at a time convenient to them, but we want to do more. We are offering 7.5 million more people evening and weekend appointments through the Prime Minister’s £100 million challenge fund. NHS England does not directly collect data for GP waiting times.
GP Appointments — House of Commons, 2015-01-13
Topic: Health
Daniel Leonard James Poulter (Conservative, Centre-right): I hope the hon. Gentleman will be reassured to hear that, according to the latest GP survey, 87% of patients in Southport and Formby clinical commissioning group were able to get an appointment or to see somebody they wanted to see at an appropriate and convenient time. It is important to note that Labour’s 48-hour target did not work. From 2007 to 2010, the percentage of patients who were able to get an appointment within the 48-hour target actually fell.
GP Appointments — House of Commons, 2015-01-13
Topic: Health
Cheryl Elise Kendall Gillan (Conservative, Centre-right): Last month, I contacted one of my excellent GPs in Chesham concerning the waiting time for one of my constituents. In his response, he reminded me that Buckinghamshire patients receive less funding per head than almost anywhere in the country. What can be done to address that inequality, so that my constituents can benefit from the same level of funding for services and treatment enjoyed by other parts of the country?
GP Appointments — House of Commons, 2015-01-13
Topic: Health
Daniel Leonard James Poulter (Conservative, Centre-right): As my right hon. Friend will be aware, the funding formula is now reviewed regularly. That is done independently and is free from political interference. Looking at areas such as hers, where there are a lot of frail and elderly patients, is now more paramount in the funding formula. In the future, I am sure that the funding formula will better reflect local health care needs.
GP Appointments — House of Commons, 2015-01-13
Topic: Health
Daniel Leonard James Poulter (Conservative, Centre-right): I do not think that people wanting to see their GP was at all helped by the previous Labour Government’s disastrous decision to contract out the GP out-of-hours service. Many patients are now struggling to receive appointments in the evenings and at weekends. The previous Government also broke the link with family doctors. To reassure the hon. Lady, the latest GP patient survey results suggest that less than 2% of patients who want GP appointments have to resort to walk-in centres or A and E departments. Under this Government, we have put in place an extra 1,000 GPs.
Accident and Emergency Departments — House of Commons, 2015-01-13
Topic: Health
Questions: What progress his Department has made on its long-term plans for easing pressures on A and E departments and preparing the NHS for the future.; What progress his Department has made on its long-term plans for easing pressures on A and E departments and preparing the NHS for the future.; What progress his Department has made on its long-term plans for easing pressures on A and E departments and preparing the NHS for the future.; What progress his Department has made on its long-term plans for easing pressures on A and E departments and preparing the NHS for the future.
Jeremy Richard Streynsham Hunt (Conservative, Centre-right): A strong NHS needs a strong economy, and because this Government have put Britain back on the road to recovery, we are able to invest an additional £2 billion in the NHS front line next year. This is a down payment on NHS England’s "Five Year Forward View"—the NHS’s own plan to transform care in the community and reduce pressure on hospitals.
Accident and Emergency Departments — House of Commons, 2015-01-13
Topic: Health
Questions: What progress his Department has made on its long-term plans for easing pressures on A and E departments and preparing the NHS for the future.; What progress his Department has made on its long-term plans for easing pressures on A and E departments and preparing the NHS for the future.; What progress his Department has made on its long-term plans for easing pressures on A and E departments and preparing the NHS for the future.; What progress his Department has made on its long-term plans for easing pressures on A and E departments and preparing the NHS for the future.
Caroline Fiona Ellen Nokes (Conservative, Centre-right): Does my right hon. Friend agree that the NHS 111 service has been unfairly criticised by the Opposition, despite their key role in establishing it, and that it has provided impressive support this winter to our A and E departments by suggesting to patients convenient and effective alternatives to the emergency department?
Accident and Emergency Departments — House of Commons, 2015-01-13
Topic: Health
Questions: What progress his Department has made on its long-term plans for easing pressures on A and E departments and preparing the NHS for the future.; What progress his Department has made on its long-term plans for easing pressures on A and E departments and preparing the NHS for the future.; What progress his Department has made on its long-term plans for easing pressures on A and E departments and preparing the NHS for the future.; What progress his Department has made on its long-term plans for easing pressures on A and E departments and preparing the NHS for the future.
Jeremy Richard Streynsham Hunt (Conservative, Centre-right): My hon. Friend is absolutely right. Part of the solution to the pressure in A and E is providing good alternatives, and in the last year for which we have figures, the 111 service took 12 million calls, which is three times more than the 4 million calls that NHS Direct took in its last year of operation, and 27% of people said that had they not called 111 they would have gone to A and E. That is a huge success.
Accident and Emergency Departments — House of Commons, 2015-01-13
Topic: Health
Questions: What progress his Department has made on its long-term plans for easing pressures on A and E departments and preparing the NHS for the future.; What progress his Department has made on its long-term plans for easing pressures on A and E departments and preparing the NHS for the future.; What progress his Department has made on its long-term plans for easing pressures on A and E departments and preparing the NHS for the future.; What progress his Department has made on its long-term plans for easing pressures on A and E departments and preparing the NHS for the future.
Mark Steven Spencer (Conservative, Centre-right): The Secretary of State will be aware of the additional pressure on Sherwood Forest hospitals trust as a result of the £40 million a year disastrous private finance initiative deal signed by the last Government. Will he meet me, my hon. Friend the Member for Newark (Robert Jenrick) and representatives from the hospital to discuss how we might move forward and deal with this terrible PFI deal?
Accident and Emergency Departments — House of Commons, 2015-01-13
Topic: Health
Questions: What progress his Department has made on its long-term plans for easing pressures on A and E departments and preparing the NHS for the future.; What progress his Department has made on its long-term plans for easing pressures on A and E departments and preparing the NHS for the future.; What progress his Department has made on its long-term plans for easing pressures on A and E departments and preparing the NHS for the future.; What progress his Department has made on its long-term plans for easing pressures on A and E departments and preparing the NHS for the future.
Jeremy Richard Streynsham Hunt (Conservative, Centre-right): I am aware of the problems with that deal, signed back in 2005, which is now consuming 17% of the trust’s income. It would like to spend that income on more doctors and nurses, but it cannot because of the shockingly bad deal signed. I would be happy to meet my hon. Friend to discuss what is possible in the current circumstances.
Accident and Emergency Departments — House of Commons, 2015-01-13
Topic: Health
Questions: What progress his Department has made on its long-term plans for easing pressures on A and E departments and preparing the NHS for the future.; What progress his Department has made on its long-term plans for easing pressures on A and E departments and preparing the NHS for the future.; What progress his Department has made on its long-term plans for easing pressures on A and E departments and preparing the NHS for the future.; What progress his Department has made on its long-term plans for easing pressures on A and E departments and preparing the NHS for the future.
Julian Charles Sturdy (Conservative, Centre-right): There are many causes of the pressure on A and E, and in more rural areas direct access to services can be difficult and costly. As such, will the Secretary of State consider investing further money in new technologies that could drive a revolution in health care facilities, and if such opportunities present themselves, may I promote York and north Yorkshire as an ideal testing ground for these technologies, given its ageing population and rurality?