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Epilepsy Services

Secondary information

Type

Parliamentary proceeding

Reference

463 c23-42WH 

Session

2006-07

Department

Department of Health

Chamber / Committee

Westminster Hall

Proceeding contributions

Chris McCafferty | 463 c24-5WH (Link to this contribution) The hon. Lady makes some valid and crucial points, and I agree with her entirely. All her points are...

Paul Truswell | 463 c25WH (Link to this contribution) I congratulate my hon. Friend on securing this debate and apologise for not being able to stay for a...

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Chris McCafferty | 463 c23-4WH (Link to this contribution) I am pleased to have obtained this debate, which is about epilepsy services and the all-party group ...

Cheryl Gillan | 463 c24WH (Link to this contribution) I am most grateful to the hon. Lady, first, for securing the debate, and secondly, for letting me in...

Madeleine Moon | 463 c27WH (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend mentions the need to improve services for people with epilepsy and the huge problem o...

Chris McCafferty | 463 c27WH (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend makes an important point. A great deal of prejudice and a lack of understanding still...

Chris McCafferty | 463 c25-7WH (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend is absolutely right—there are important and serious issues concerning the coroner ser...

Madeleine Moon | 463 c28WH (Link to this contribution) I do not speak for the Liberal Democrats.

Cheryl Gillan | 463 c28WH (Link to this contribution) I am grateful for being allowed to speak briefly in this debate. I had not intended to do so, but I ...

Chris McCafferty | 463 c28WH (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend makes an important point. That balance between confidentiality and ensuring proper ca...

David Drew | 463 c28WH (Link to this contribution) One issue that concerns me is the Prison Service. Much as I agree with the Government’s reforms, whi...

Cheryl Gillan | 463 c29-30WH (Link to this contribution) I must refer the hon. Lady to the report, if she has read it. I appreciate that responsibility for h...

Sandra Gidley | 463 c29WH (Link to this contribution) Does the hon. Lady have any information about the time scale of those figures? Responsibility for pr...

Cheryl Gillan | 463 c29WH (Link to this contribution) I understand that; my eyesight must be worse than I thought. I understand that there is real ignora...

Stephen O'Brien | 463 c30WH (Link to this contribution) That point highlights another subject that was touched on by the hon. Member for Calder Valley (Chri...

Cheryl Gillan | 463 c30WH (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend is absolutely right. We have alluded to the fact that epilepsy is often associated wi...

Sandra Gidley | 463 c30-1WH (Link to this contribution) I congratulate the hon. Member for Calder Valley (Chris McCafferty) on securing the debate. The all-...

David Drew | 463 c31WH (Link to this contribution) There is a particular problem regarding the families of those who suffer from epilepsy explaining th...

Madeleine Moon | 463 c31WH (Link to this contribution) I apologise because I, too, cannot stay for the whole debate. I was lobbied the week before last by ...

Sandra Gidley | 463 c31WH (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman makes a good point. I used to work with someone with epilepsy and at the outset, ...

Stephen O'Brien | 463 c34-8WH (Link to this contribution) I congratulate the hon. Member for Calder Valley (Chris McCafferty) on securing this important and t...

Sandra Gidley | 463 c31-4WH (Link to this contribution) The hon. Lady has admirably highlighted the need for more information, not just once a firm diagnosi...

Stephen O'Brien | 463 c40WH (Link to this contribution) Tell me about it.

Ann Keen | 463 c40-2WH (Link to this contribution) I thought the hon. Gentleman would be able to relate to that. Decisions, however, on the skill mix ...

Stephen O'Brien | 463 c40WH (Link to this contribution) I am very interested in the point that the Minister is making. She is absolutely right. However, doe...

Ann Keen | 463 c40WH (Link to this contribution) I agree absolutely with the hon. Gentleman, which is why the review of the NHS in general is being l...

Ann Keen | 463 c38-40WH (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend may not be looking for special favours, but she is going the right way to get them. I...

Ann Keen | 463 c42WH (Link to this contribution) I thank the hon. Gentleman for that intervention. Yes, I would take that forward, because travel is ...

Stephen O'Brien | 463 c42WH (Link to this contribution) The Minister might want also to bring the Department for Transport into her joint working approach, ...

Chris McCafferty | 463 c38WH (Link to this contribution) I realise that I failed to congratulate my hon. Friend the Minister on her important and well deserv...

Ann Keen | 463 c38WH (Link to this contribution) Thank you for calling me, Miss. Begg.

Subjects

Health services Diseases Epilepsy NHS

Link

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