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NHS Staffing

I have very little time left, so the hon. Lady might want to see me at some later time. Our stroke strategy and our cancer plan have been welcomed throughout the voluntary sector—and most importantly of all, by patients themselves. Patients' satisfaction with the NHS is second to none. The work force in our NHS is also second to none. We need to do more to improve it, so we need to work together in the House. I would like to see a consensus on the point that the NHS as it stands today provides the best health care in the world. That is true only because of NHS staff. Let us all work together not to praise them only today but always. That is different from the 1980s and 90s, when I experienced marches and collection buckets for NHS equipment. No one is doing that today because we have a Labour Government looking after the NHS. Question put and agreed to. Resolved,"That this House has considered the matter of NHS staffing."