Health and Care Bill

This broad group of amendments concern improving patient safety and the quality of health and car...

I am particularly concerned about the workforce situation in primary care. In my constituency, th...

My right hon. Friend is perspicacious in his prediction of where I was about to go. I was about t...

I am grateful to the Minister for giving way. There is much to commend in the amendment of my rig...

My hon. Friend is absolutely right. We see huge opportunities, almost every day, from new technol...

As part of the Minister’s workforce review, will he look at the Carr-Hill formula, which local GP...

The Carr-Hill formula has been through many “almost reviews” over the years and has been looked a...

Fifteen years is a long time in workforce planning. The make-up of the workforce could change sig...

I set out the commissioning of the 15-year framework to look at need. Within that, the House will...

New clause 29(2)(d) has merits, as I am sure the Minister will accept, in that we need to incenti...

As ever, my right hon. Friend—my friend—makes his point well, and, as ever, I will commit to taki...

Will the Minister give way?

Yes, of course, although I do so with a degree of trepidation, because the hon. Lady is well vers...

The Minister does not need to be anxious, because he has already heard it all in Committee. Does ...

I am grateful for the manner in which the hon. Lady puts her points. She is right; we have debate...

I thank the Minister for his introduction. It seems like only yesterday that we were having a sim...

May I just comment that it feels a lot better this time?

Let us just say that the more I hear of the right hon. Gentleman, the more I like what he has to ...

A doctor in my constituency, Dr Tom James, told me that he and his colleagues in the hospital wer...

New clause 29 and amendment 10 are the starting point, not the whole answer. They are a framework...

Anyone who on Sunday was on the March with Midwives will understand the real crisis now facing th...

Like just about every profession and sector in the NHS, midwives are under tremendous pressure an...

One reason I want to emphasise the importance of new clause 28 is that we are anticipating a grea...

My hon. Friend is correct; we could not have anticipated what has happened in the past 12 to 18 m...

I want to pick up on the increasing demand for mental health services. Does the hon. Gentleman ac...

We are always looking at ways to improve productivity, but we know that on the current figures th...

The hon. Member for North East Bedfordshire (Richard Fuller) talks about efficiency, but the figu...

I thank the hon. Member for her intervention. The point about agencies and locum spend is not a n...

Having spent over three decades in the NHS, I know that this is not just about senior staff and w...

I thank the hon. Member for her intervention. Indeed, this actually covers some of the debate we ...

The hon. Member is being generous in giving way. Would he avoid the temptation to suggest that pr...

I accept what the right hon. Member has said. There has been a gap in investment in IT and other ...

Does my hon. Friend agree with me that many of the recruitment challenges often sit in outsourced...

I thank my hon. Friend for her intervention and I will later talk a little about outsourcing and ...

I thank the hon. Member for giving way, and I apologise to the Minister for not being here at the...

I thank the hon. Member for his intervention. I think he is being very modest, but he is absolute...

I rise to speak in support of amendment 10 but, before I do, I also want to express strong suppor...

I commend the right hon. Gentleman for amendment 10. With 2,700 vacant nursing posts in Northern ...

I believe it will. I am grateful to the hon. Gentleman for raising that issue, because medical tr...

I congratulate the right hon. Gentleman on amendment 10 and on how he has built such a coalition ...

The hon. Lady gives a good example, because mental health is an area that we have all recently co...

It is not just that patients prefer to see a doctor long term. There are safety issues when locum...

I absolutely agree with the hon. Lady, who knows about acute services. I also point to recent evi...

The hon. Member for Central Ayrshire (Dr Whitford) is absolutely right about acute safety; I spea...

My right hon. Friend is right that there are problems with the GP contract. I do not want to get ...

All Governments in the UK are expanding medical school places and trying to train more students, ...

The hon. Lady is absolutely right. Medical school, the foundation years and, as my right hon. Fri...

My right hon. Friend is making an excellent speech, and I strongly support his amendment. Will he...

My right hon. Friend speaks about these issues with a great deal of knowledge, given his former m...

One of the key workforces is, of course, in public health, where the aim is to shift the balance ...

I thank the hon. Lady, who before entering this place spent her time campaigning to support NHS a...

I am delighted to follow the Chair of the Health and Social Care Committee, and, in this rather u...

I will speak mainly to new clause 1, but I cannot start without paying tribute to my hon. Friend ...

The Health and Care Bill allows for

“a profession currently regulated to be removed from st...

I draw the House’s attention to my interests, which are set out in the Register of Members’ Finan...

I rise to speak in support of new clause 12, which stands in my name and those of many hon. Membe...

I would like to put on record my support for nurses, particularly on Nursing Support Workers’ Day...

My hon. Friend makes a valid and valuable point. One way we can show our appreciation for nurses’...

It is a pleasure to contribute to this debate and specifically to speak to new clause 1, tabled i...

Along with the damage to patients who trustingly go for such procedures, is it not also about the...

I thank the hon. Lady for using exactly that term because she is right: it is about the NHS picki...

I could speak about so many aspects of the Bill—such as the U-turn on the social care cap, the la...

I rise to speak on amendment 10. I want to start by relaying a conversation that I had soon after...

I rise to support new clause 1, which stands in the name of the right hon. Member for Romsey and ...

I rise to speak to amendment 10 in the name of my right hon. Friend the Member for South West Sur...

Listening to the hon. Member’s speech, I think he is giving the game away in some ways, because w...

I would ask the hon. Member to listen a bit more carefully, because nowhere have I said admin sho...

I gently point out that surgeons do not just operate—we run clinics; we run endoscopy lists and c...

I agree with the hon. Lady that surgeons work incredibly hard. What I am talking about is operati...

Does my hon. Friend agree that one of the challenges for primary care is that general practitione...

My hon. Friend speaks with much experience and makes a powerful point. I think he would agree tha...

I rise to speak in support of amendment 10, tabled by the right hon. Member for South West Surrey...

Does the hon. Lady agree that it is not just about levels of pay and uncertainty for those indivi...

The right hon. Gentleman is absolutely right, and that is the point I want to make: we need to bo...

I have three people indicating that they wish to speak. I ask people to make really short contrib...

I will be brief, Mr Deputy Speaker. I should declare that I am married to a doctor.

Staff a...

I shall keep my comments very brief. I apologise to the Minister for not having been here for his...

I rise to speak on amendment 10 on workforce planning, in the name of my right hon. Friend the Me...

This is a little more generous than the six minutes I feared I might have to work with, Mr Deputy...

Can I just say that the Minister has been absolutely superb in engaging throughout this process? ...

I am grateful to my hon. Friend, who I think covered both bases there very eloquently. He makes a...

rose—

If the hon. Member is going to be brief, I will of course give way to her.

I was going to quickly say that the Government’s response to Alison Leary’s very good petition sa...

I am grateful to the hon. Lady, but we have had the Committee. We are now at the stage where we h...

We are now coming on to the next group of amendments. As hon. Members can see, we have only an ho...

I beg to move, That the clause be read a Second time.

With this it will be convenient to discuss the following:

New clause 13—National self-care ...

Being conscious of the time, I will endeavour to be brief and try to scoop up in my winding-up sp...

Fantastic. I am grateful to the Minister for his brevity; he can see how many people are trying t...

Thank you, Madam Deputy Speaker—[Interruption.] It has been a long day, Mr Deputy Speaker, but we...

Many of my constituents find it increasingly difficult to book an appointment with an NHS GP or d...

My hon. Friend is right that one of the criticisms we have levelled against the Bill is that it d...

I rise to speak in support of amendments 93 to 98, whose purpose is very simple.

The Health...

I rise to speak to my amendment 82, which is on legislative consent if the Bill is used in the de...

I rise to support new clauses 60 and 61, which relate, like the amendments that the hon. Member f...

Is the right hon. Gentleman aware that there is concern in Wales, where we are protecting the pri...

On the contrary: data protection laws are UK-wide, so it is appropriate that this should be done ...

I simply point out that it is available; it is just that funding has to follow from the domestic ...

It happens on an ad hoc basis, but it is not a right. The NHS is a great British institution, and...

I rise to speak to amendment 73, which would introduce safeguards around the discharge-to-assess ...

Does the hon. Member agree that it would be helpful if the NHS had a duty, as I have attempted to...

I do indeed. The hon. Member may not know that, a few years ago, I introduced a Bill to try to pe...

Thank you for calling me, Mr Deputy Speaker, and I thank Mr Speaker for selecting my new clause 1...

I strongly support the new clause. Does the hon. Gentleman also recognise that there can be delay...

I tend to agree, and that is in part what the new clause is intended to address.

I chaired ...

Will the hon. Gentleman give way?

I will not. I do apologise, but time is short.

New clause has been endorsed by the founding...

I must ask for brief contributions from now on. I call Margaret Greenwood.

Thank you, Mr Deputy Speaker.

The proposed NHS payment scheme in the Bill will, in effect, ...

I would like to speak to new clause 31 in my name, which would reduce the upper gestational limit...

Is it not absurd that in one ward of a hospital doctors can be fighting to save the life of a 22-...

My right hon. Friend makes exactly the right point.

Our law needs to be updated. The curren...

In order to try to get as many people in as possible, I am going to put on a three-minute time li...

Forced organ harvesting in China is one of the worst crimes against humanity of the 21st century....

I rise to speak to new clauses 60 and 61 in my name. Simply, they would put patients first. I am ...

I do not question that the hon. Gentleman’s new clause is well intentioned. Does he believe that ...

I thank the hon. Gentleman for his question, which is a good and relevant one, and it speaks dire...

I will be brief, speaking to new clause 32 in my name. It is an amendment based on the proposed C...

I speak to new clause 50, tabled in my name and that of the right hon. Member for Kingston upon H...

Yesterday, regrettably, the Minister did not respond to my exhortations on self-care in his summi...

Will the hon. Gentleman give way?

I am afraid that I do not have time. Let the Secretary of State report on access to NHS dentistry...

I will be exceptionally brief, Madam Deputy Speaker. I wish to speak on amendments 103 to 105. It...

I wish to speak to new clauses 51 and 52, both of which stand in my name. New clause 51 relates t...

Does my hon. Friend share my concerns that a large number of people throughout the whole United K...

Order. That intervention is quite long enough.

I will not push either of my new clauses to a vote. However, legal clarification on sex-selective...

I support new clause 19, which I signed, and will wait to see what the Minister says about it.