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Dementia Sufferers

Secondary information

Type

Parliamentary proceeding

Reference

465 c101-23WH 

Session

2006-07

Department

Department of Health

Chamber / Committee

Westminster Hall

Proceeding contributions

Ivan Lewis | 465 c114WH (Link to this contribution) I congratulate the hon. Member for Rugby and Hamilton—

Anne Milton | 465 c113-4WH (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend has made the point extremely well, and I expect that the Minister and hon. Members al...

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Graham Stuart | 465 c115WH;465 c115-6WH (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to the Minister for giving way and for the words that he has just uttered. When can we...

Ivan Lewis | 465 c114-5WH (Link to this contribution) I am well briefed. I congratulate the hon. Member for Rugby and Kenilworth (Jeremy Wright) on securi...

Anne Milton | 465 c114WH (Link to this contribution) Kenilworth.

Ivan Lewis | 465 c115WH (Link to this contribution) I am delighted to pay tribute to that group in the hon. Lady's constituency. It is important to reme...

Anne Milton | 465 c115WH (Link to this contribution) Will the Minister join me in paying tribute to groups such as one in Cranleigh in my constituency, w...

Ivan Lewis | 465 c118-9WH (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman is even reading my mind now. I was just going to come on to that point. On the q...

Baroness Keeley | 465 c119WH (Link to this contribution) On raising the quality of respite care, does my hon. Friend agree that it is not strictly a cost iss...

Ivan Lewis | 465 c118WH (Link to this contribution) I agree with the hon. Lady's sentiments. Neil Hunt and the Alzheimer's Society have done a tremendou...

Graham Stuart | 465 c118WH (Link to this contribution) Will the Minister pick up the point made by my hon. Friend the Member for Rugby and Kenilworth about...

Ivan Lewis | 465 c115-6WH;465 c116WH (Link to this contribution) We intend the national dementia strategy, when it is published, to reference our view on going forwa...

Graham Stuart | 465 c116WH (Link to this contribution) The Minister has been party to creating joint working between health and social care in order to try...

Ivan Lewis | 465 c116-7WH;465 c117-8WH (Link to this contribution) Yes, I agree entirely with that. But the hon. Gentleman must accept that his party is not saying to ...

Anne Milton | 465 c118WH (Link to this contribution) I would like to associate myself with the Minister's comments. The courage of people who have been t...

Ivan Lewis | 465 c116WH (Link to this contribution) There was an era not that long ago when nothing plus nothing came to nothing, and those of us in the...

Jeremy Wright | 465 c116WH (Link to this contribution) The Minister is right; this is the wrong subject for political knockabout. The key point is that the...

Anne Milton | 465 c113WH (Link to this contribution) I thank my hon. Friend for that intervention. His points were well made. Of course, I should not do ...

Graham Stuart | 465 c112-3WH;465 c113WH (Link to this contribution) Will my hon. Friend join me in congratulating the Minister on two fronts: first on recognising the f...

Anne Milton | 465 c111WH (Link to this contribution) I start by paying tribute to my hon. Friend the Member for Rugby and Kenilworth (Jeremy Wright), who...

John Pugh | 465 c108-11WH (Link to this contribution) I congratulate the hon. Member for Rugby and Kenilworth (Jeremy Wright) on raising this issue and pu...

Baroness Keeley | 465 c107-8WH (Link to this contribution) I shall leave the Minister to deal with that political point. While speaking of care for dementia s...

Graham Stuart | 465 c106-7WH (Link to this contribution) Does the hon. Lady share my disappointment with the local government settlement in the comprehensive...

Anne Milton | 465 c112WH;465 c112-3WH (Link to this contribution) My apologies—the hon. Member for Worsley (Barbara Keeley). Wherever the hon. Lady hails from, her po...

Ivan Lewis | 465 c112WH (Link to this contribution) Worsley.

Anne Milton | 465 c112WH (Link to this contribution) Yes, I thank my hon. Friend for clarifying that. As he has rightly said, some excellent care is undo...

Jeremy Wright | 465 c112WH (Link to this contribution) For the purposes of clarity, I certainly do not criticise all uses of neuroleptic drugs. My point co...

Anne Milton | 465 c111-2WH (Link to this contribution) I am pleased to see the Minister nodding in approval, because this is not a terribly party political...

Jeremy Wright | 465 c101-5WH (Link to this contribution) I begin by welcoming you to the Chair, Mr. Marshall, in what I hope and believe will be an important...

Baroness Keeley | 465 c105-6WH (Link to this contribution) I congratulate the hon. Member for Rugby and Kenilworth (Jeremy Wright) on securing the debate, whic...

Graham Stuart | 465 c113WH (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend has mentioned pressure on council budgets. The current number of dementia sufferers i...

Ivan Lewis | 465 c119WH (Link to this contribution) I agree with my hon. Friend, although to some extent I think that there is a combination of factors....

Jeremy Wright | 465 c119WH (Link to this contribution) If the Minister is about to move on to this subject, I apologise. Before he leaves the subject of th...

Ivan Lewis | 465 c119WH;465 c120WH (Link to this contribution) I was just coming on to that.

Jeremy Wright | 465 c119WH;465 c120WH (Link to this contribution) In that case, I will happily let the Minister proceed, and may intervene again.

Ivan Lewis | 465 c119-20WH;465 c120WH (Link to this contribution) I was about to echo the comments made by the hon. Gentleman, other hon. Members, the Princess Royal ...

Jeremy Wright | 465 c120WH (Link to this contribution) On the specific issue of the single point of contact, the Minister has talked about the desirability...

Jeremy Wright | 465 c121WH (Link to this contribution) Does the Minister agree that we need to recognise people's concerns about, and fear of, a diagnosis ...

Ivan Lewis | 465 c120-1WH (Link to this contribution) That is a difficult point. I personally believe that in every community there should be a single poi...

Ivan Lewis | 465 c122-3WH (Link to this contribution) Professor Banerjee, who is leading on that, is the Department's clinical advisor on dementia. He is ...

Ivan Lewis | 465 c121-2WH (Link to this contribution) One of the benefits of the reshuffle is not only that I retain my job, but that, for the first time,...

Jeremy Wright | 465 c122WH (Link to this contribution) I appreciate that the Minister is running out of time, but I do not want him to run out of it before...

Ivan Lewis | 465 c121WH (Link to this contribution) I agree with the hon. Gentleman that it is important to recognise models of best practice. There is ...

Graham Stuart | 465 c121WH (Link to this contribution) Given that dementia is the subject of today's debate, will the Minister comment on dementia in young...

Subjects

Carers Dementia Alzheimer's disease Diseases Home care services Medical treatments Mental health services Research

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