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Opposition day on Tuesday, 3 July 2007, in the House of Commons, led by Lord Lansley. The answering member was Alan Johnson.

Access to NHS Services

Access to NHS Services. Fifteenth opposition day debate (part 1). Motion negatived on division (193 to 292). Amendment agreed to on question.

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Type
Parliamentary proceeding
Reference
462 c837-87 
Session
2006-07
Department
Department of Health
Chamber / Committee
House of Commons chamber
Proceeding contributions
Speaker | 462 c863 (Link to this contribution) Order. There are 51 minutes left before the wind-ups are due to take place. Eight hon. Members are s...
Lord Soames of Fletching | 462 c839 (Link to this contribution) As my hon. Friend knows, reconfigurations are taking place throughout the country, especially in sou...
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Speaker | 462 c837 (Link to this contribution) I must announce to the House that Mr. Speaker has selected the amendment in the name of the Prime Mi...
Lord Lansley | 462 c837-9 (Link to this contribution) I beg to move,"That this House reaffirms its commitment to equitable access to high-quality NHS care...
Graham Stuart | 462 c848 (Link to this contribution) Uncharacteristically, the Secretary of State has not started with the humility that is needed, given...
Alan Johnson | 462 c848 (Link to this contribution) It was not worth giving way. I thought that the hon. Gentleman was going to tell us about the exciti...
Norman Lamb | 462 c848-9 (Link to this contribution) The Secretary of State has rightly drawn attention to the fact that there have been significant impr...
Alan Johnson | 462 c849 (Link to this contribution) May I say how pleased I am that the hon. Gentleman is the Liberal Democrat spokesman? We have histor...
Lord Lansley | 462 c846-7 (Link to this contribution) I share my right hon. Friend’s concerns. Furthermore, he represents a part of the country that secur...
Alan Johnson | 462 c847-8 (Link to this contribution) I beg to move, To leave out from ““House”” to end and add:"““supports the Government’s trebling of i...
Alan Johnson | 462 c848 (Link to this contribution) I will give way to the hon. Gentleman, who obviously wants to tell us about the tremendous new commu...
Lord Lansley | 462 c845 (Link to this contribution) No, because I have already given way to the hon. Lady. I was talking about what we need to do to co...
Lord Redwood | 462 c845 (Link to this contribution) Does my hon. Friend agree not only that people are upset about having to travel much longer distance...
Alan Johnson | 462 c851 (Link to this contribution) Nurses are indeed critical, and their pay has risen over the past 10 years. With reference to this y...
Alan Johnson | 462 c850 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend is absolutely right: we can go much further as regards the 10,000 pharmacies in this ...
Anne Milton | 462 c850-1 (Link to this contribution) Nurses, and particularly community nurses, are an important part of access to NHS services. When he ...
Alan Johnson | 462 c849 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend is absolutely right, and that is the story of the past 10 years. We have used investm...
Lord Lansley | 462 c849 (Link to this contribution) The Secretary of State will find that in our document, which he clearly has not read, we commit ours...
Alan Johnson | 462 c849 (Link to this contribution) I would very much welcome a meeting with the hon. Gentleman to talk about the problems in his consti...
Jim Cunningham | 462 c849 (Link to this contribution) I hope that in his speech my right hon. Friend will draw attention to the fact that before 1997 we d...
Charles Walker | 462 c849 (Link to this contribution) I welcome the Secretary of State to his new position. I knew him for a number of years before I came...
John Bercow | 462 c841-2 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend rightly focuses on the services provided by PCTs. The Government are right to emphasi...
Lord Lansley | 462 c841 (Link to this contribution) We have made it clear throughout that we agree that services must be developed, but that must be don...
Lord Lansley | 462 c839 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to my hon. Friend for that intervention, and I entirely agree with his point. The new ...
Anne Snelgrove | 462 c839 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman believes that reconfiguration should be halted and the medical profession should ...
Lord Lansley | 462 c839-40 (Link to this contribution) We have always argued that it is necessary to develop services; I am unsure whether the hon. Lady at...
Lord Davies of Stamford | 462 c840 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to the hon. Gentleman for allowing me to do so. I am extremely grateful to the Governm...
Lord Lansley | 462 c840-1 (Link to this contribution) I do not know what world the hon. Gentleman is living in, but he is not living in Lincolnshire, beca...
Helen Jones | 462 c841 (Link to this contribution) Even the hon. Gentleman’s colleagues accept that sometimes changes in services have to be made—
Helen Jones | 462 c841 (Link to this contribution) Well, the hon. Gentleman mentioned community hospitals and if he will allow me, I will quote the hon...
Anne Snelgrove | 462 c845 (Link to this contribution) Will the hon. Gentleman give way?
Mary Creagh | 462 c843 (Link to this contribution) Most of the reconfigurations of obstetrics and gynaecology services are going ahead not because the ...
Lord Lansley | 462 c843 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Lady should have attended our debate on maternity services, when we made it very clear that...
Tony Baldry | 462 c842 (Link to this contribution) Does my hon. Friend agree that the test of service reconfiguration is safety? Sir Ian Kennedy is the...
Lord Lansley | 462 c842 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to my hon. Friend for that very important point. We have argued in this House many tim...
Lord Lansley | 462 c845 (Link to this contribution) I am really grateful to my hon. Friend for making that point, because she sums up exactly the experi...
Graham Stuart | 462 c843 (Link to this contribution) Two years ago, during the general election campaign, my hon. Friend came to Hornsea and visited peop...
Lord Lansley | 462 c843-5 (Link to this contribution) I share my hon. Friend’s distress about the matter. It is clear that, on the criterion of access to ...
Lord Lansley | 462 c842 (Link to this contribution) I entirely share my hon. Friend’s concern, and he has been a redoubtable fighter for the interests o...
Howard Stoate | 462 c861 (Link to this contribution) Does the hon. Gentleman share my view that it is far better to have planned reconfiguration of servi...
Norman Lamb | 462 c860-1 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful for that intervention and I suspect that the Secretary of State will be aware of that....
Graham Stuart | 462 c860 (Link to this contribution) I understand that the wait for orthodontics for children in Hull—the Secretary of State’s constituen...
Norman Lamb | 462 c857-60 (Link to this contribution) I appreciate that the hon. Gentleman’s report deals with that, but it is a legitimate concern. Let ...
Norman Lamb | 462 c856-7 (Link to this contribution) I join in welcoming the Secretary of State and the rest of the ministerial team to their new roles. ...
Norman Lamb | 462 c862 (Link to this contribution) It is now 24 per cent. The World Health Organisation says that when we get beyond about 15 per cent....
Sandra Gidley | 462 c862 (Link to this contribution) It is 24 per cent. now. It has gone up.
Norman Lamb | 462 c861-2 (Link to this contribution) As I have already outlined in some detail, there is a real risk that, in achieving the result that t...
Anne Snelgrove | 462 c863-5 (Link to this contribution) May I add my congratulations to my right hon. Friend the new Health Secretary on his flying start to...
Anne Snelgrove | 462 c865-6 (Link to this contribution) I am about to finish, but I am grateful, Mr. Deputy Speaker. The Opposition are chuntering, because ...
Speaker | 462 c865 (Link to this contribution) Order. We must not have continual chuntering.
Norman Lamb | 462 c862 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman might say that, but the remarkable difference between this country and Holland, w...
Norman Lamb | 462 c863 (Link to this contribution) I do not think that we are in any disagreement. I absolutely agree about the importance of choice—[I...
Andrew Murrison | 462 c862 (Link to this contribution) Of course women want choice, but the point that I was trying to make was that they might want to hav...
Mary Creagh | 462 c867-9 (Link to this contribution) I wish to speak briefly about the health care system in Wakefield, which presents a challenge, not l...
Peter Bone | 462 c866-7 (Link to this contribution) It is a great pleasure to follow the hon. Member for South Swindon (Anne Snelgrove), who made her po...
Tony Baldry | 462 c869-71 (Link to this contribution) Geography is not convenient: the Horton general hospital in my constituency serves a large part of n...
Speaker | 462 c851 (Link to this contribution) Order. Before the Secretary of State answers, may I say to the House that interventions are getting ...
Baroness Keeley | 462 c851 (Link to this contribution) On access to premises, when I return to my constituency office every week, I see a new local improve...
Alan Johnson | 462 c851 (Link to this contribution) Perhaps I might add that the teachers’ pay increase comes later in the year. The NHS pay increase wa...
Speaker | 462 c851 (Link to this contribution) Order. I am sorry to interrupt the right hon. Gentleman. The hon. Lady asked a question. She should ...
Lord Tyrie | 462 c853 (Link to this contribution) I am glad that the Secretary of State has moved off his partisan opening remarks. What relevance doe...
Alan Johnson | 462 c853 (Link to this contribution) If the hon. Gentleman wishes to congratulate us on that achievement, I will of course give way.
Alan Johnson | 462 c851-2 (Link to this contribution) Thank you, Mr. Deputy Speaker. I shall simply agree with my hon. Friend the Member for Worsley (Barb...
David Burrowes | 462 c853 (Link to this contribution) The Secretary of State will appreciate that he comes to his post at the very time that the plans to ...
Alan Johnson | 462 c853 (Link to this contribution) We are still in consultation on the issue that the hon. Gentleman raises, but these issues are drive...
Alan Johnson | 462 c853 (Link to this contribution) In a moment, I will discuss some of the things that we need to do to take the argument forward. My p...
Alan Johnson | 462 c854 (Link to this contribution) I understand the hon. Gentleman’s point. As constituency MPs, we all face those pressures. The diffe...
Tony Baldry | 462 c853-4 (Link to this contribution) It is impossible to explain to my constituents that taking away consultant-led maternity services, s...
Alan Johnson | 462 c854-5 (Link to this contribution) I am willing to consider the hon. Gentleman’s particular case. Such developments should occur only w...
Simon Burns | 462 c854 (Link to this contribution) Will the Secretary of State help me? My local hospital has experienced a degree of financial pain af...
Alan Johnson | 462 c856 (Link to this contribution) Sadly, I do not have time to go into that subject at the moment, but I assure the hon. Lady that she...
Sandra Gidley | 462 c856 (Link to this contribution) The Secretary of State mentioned patients having a clear path to follow. Many patients find it diffi...
Speaker | 462 c856 (Link to this contribution) That is not a point of order for the Chair but a matter of continuing debate, which will doubtless b...
Peter Bone | 462 c856 (Link to this contribution) On a point of order, Mr. Deputy Speaker. Is it correct that someone can, without foundation, charact...
Speaker | 462 c873 (Link to this contribution) Order. The hon. Gentleman has indicated that he will not give way at this stage.
Lord Davies of Stamford | 462 c873-4 (Link to this contribution) The Opposition are merely attempting to disrupt my speech, Mr. Deputy Speaker. Their actions are chi...
Simon Burns | 462 c872 (Link to this contribution) Will the hon. Gentleman give way?
Lord Davies of Stamford | 462 c872 (Link to this contribution) No, there is no time. I am sorry, but the hon. Gentleman must understand that. The figures are amaz...
Lord Davies of Stamford | 462 c871-2 (Link to this contribution) I wholeheartedly agree with a number of the ideas that have been thrown around this afternoon. First...
Stephen O'Brien | 462 c873 (Link to this contribution) Will the hon. Gentleman give way?
Lord Davies of Stamford | 462 c873 (Link to this contribution) I am sorry, I have no time. The hon. Gentleman will have his chance in a moment. I always give way w...
Simon Burns | 462 c872 (Link to this contribution) Will the hon. Gentleman give way?
Lord Davies of Stamford | 462 c872-3 (Link to this contribution) Of course I cannot, as we do not have time. The hon. Gentleman must understand that. It follows tha...
Graham Stuart | 462 c874-6 (Link to this contribution) I think that we have dealt with the hon. Gentleman fully. Like many other hon. Members I should lik...
Richard Taylor | 462 c876-7 (Link to this contribution) I have four minutes to bring to the attention of the new Ministers, whom I welcome, some practical s...
Stephen O'Brien | 462 c877-80 (Link to this contribution) I welcome the Minister of State, Department of Health, the hon. Member for Exeter (Mr. Bradshaw), to...
Ben Bradshaw | 462 c880-1 (Link to this contribution) This has been a mainly good debate and many important points have been raised. I acknowledge the war...
Graham Stuart | 462 c874 (Link to this contribution) It is interesting to find myself following the hon. Member for Grantham and Stamford (Mr. Davies), e...
Simon Burns | 462 c874 (Link to this contribution) Does my hon. Friend agree that the election address to which he referred has more to say? It goes on...
Ben Bradshaw | 462 c881-3 (Link to this contribution) Certainly not. I very much regret that not all Back Benchers were able to contribute to the debate b...
Alan Johnson | 462 c856 (Link to this contribution) I was saying that the NHS is safe in the Government’s hands. The Labour party has no equivalent to C...
Anne Milton | 462 c845 (Link to this contribution) Does my hon. Friend agree that many people are completely muddled about what the Government are tryi...
Alan Johnson | 462 c850 (Link to this contribution) I am pleased that the hon. Gentleman now supports the core values and principles in the NHS document...
Howard Stoate | 462 c850 (Link to this contribution) I congratulate my right hon. Friend on his appointment, and I wish him luck for the future; I am sur...
Subjects
Dental services Closures Construction Community hospitals Hospitals Finance Hearing aids General practitioners NHS Primary care Primary care trusts Staff Maternity services Waiting lists Standards Working hours Reform NHS Direct Accident and emergency departments Patient choice schemes
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