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Emergency Care

I am grateful to my hon. Friend and heartily endorse what he says. Happily, it is agreed across this House that NHS staff working in emergency and urgent care services do a fabulous job. We depend on them, and over these recent weeks, in all parts of the country, they have not let us down; they have responded terrifically. That is appreciated by patients. A patient wrote to his local newspaper about staff at Leighton hospital just outside Crewe, saying:"““The doctors and nurses at the local A&E…all did everything they could to help me. Nothing at all was too much trouble for any of them. You are all a credit to yourselves and your professions.””" Another patient, writing about Derbyshire Royal infirmary, said:"““The treatment and attention I received at the Derbyshire Royal Infirmary was nothing short of first class.””" I could add more and more of just those kinds of commendations for NHS staff.