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Hospital Trusts (Essex)

I certainly agree that patient safety is of the highest importance and that it is crucial that this House devotes time to debating how to raise standards of patient safety. It is the one area where we can confidently say that there must never be complacency. There must be a continual process of interrogation of standards at all trusts, and just when a trust feels it is doing well enough, it should look again and improve its performance even further. I agree with the hon. Gentleman that we need to devote more time to debating patient safety on the Floor of the House.