Ministerial statement on Monday, 12 July 2010, in the House of Commons, led by Lord Lansley.

NHS White Paper

Statement on the NHS White Paper.

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Type: Parliamentary proceeding
Reference: 513 c661-81
Session: 2010-12
Department: Department of Health
Chamber / Committee: House of Commons chamber
Related items: NHS: Costs
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Proceeding contributions: Lord Lansley | 513 c667 (Link to this contribution) The shadow Secretary of State will have had the chance to see that there is nothing in today's White...; Andy Burnham | 513 c667 (Link to this contribution) You have been briefing about it.; Andrew George | 513 c667-8 (Link to this contribution) In seeking to reassure the House that this is not the top-down reorganisation that the coalition agr...; Hazel Blears | 513 c668 (Link to this contribution) Despite the tremendous improvements that have been made in Salford and Eccles over the past few year...; Lord Lansley | 513 c668 (Link to this contribution) The White Paper makes it clear that the NHS commissioning board will be required to allocate resourc...; Nadine Dorries | 513 c668 (Link to this contribution) May I congratulate the Secretary of State on what is a truly exciting White Paper? Will he confirm t...; Lord Lansley | 513 c668 (Link to this contribution) Yes, my hon. Friend understands that GPs are often providers beyond their primary medical services r...; Nick Raynsford | 513 c668-9 (Link to this contribution) How can the Secretary of State, with a straight face, say that he opposes the culture of top-down bu...; Lord Lansley | 513 c669 (Link to this contribution) No is the answer. I set out on 21 May criteria on listening to patients and understanding what patie...; Steve Brine | 513 c669 (Link to this contribution) I congratulate the Secretary of State on his statement, which many people outside the House will rec...; Lord Lansley | 513 c669 (Link to this contribution) I am astonished that Labour Members are still attacking general practice. I thought that shadow Mini...; Jacob Rees-Mogg | 513 c669 (Link to this contribution) In welcoming this statement, I wonder whether the Secretary of State will be able to put in place an...; Lord Lansley | 513 c669 (Link to this contribution) Yes. The commissioning responsibility will include urgent and out-of-hours care. I commend to my hon...; Dennis Skinner | 513 c669 (Link to this contribution) Speaking as someone with a successful outcome, twice, under the national health service in recent ti...; Lord Lansley | 513 c670 (Link to this contribution) I must not be unkind to the right hon. Gentleman, because he has not yet had a chance to read the Wh...; Lord Lansley | 513 c670 (Link to this contribution) I am pleased to be able to tell my hon. Friend that as part of the coalition programme we have said ...; David Lammy | 513 c670 (Link to this contribution) Most people will recognise that GPs are at the cornerstone of the NHS, but also that since 1948 they...; Lord Lansley | 513 c675 (Link to this contribution) Because patients will have increased choice—[Hon. Members: "How?"] Because patients will make their ...; John Pugh | 513 c675 (Link to this contribution) The coalition agreement pledges to introduce true local democratic accountability through citizens a...; Lord Lansley | 513 c675-6 (Link to this contribution) Yes. I feel very strongly that we have deliberately set out to improve local democratic accountabili...; Margot James | 513 c675 (Link to this contribution) Older people and people with long-term medical conditions have not been well served by the division ...; Lord Lansley | 513 c675 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful for my hon. Friend's question. There is an unprecedented opportunity for local authori...; Tony Lloyd | 513 c675 (Link to this contribution) Without any shame, the Secretary of State is introducing an internal market in the health service. I...; Jeremy Lefroy | 513 c676 (Link to this contribution) I thank my right hon. Friend for his statement. As he will know, concerns were expressed about the r...; Lord Lansley | 513 c676 (Link to this contribution) It is broke, and we are fixing it. We are fixing it because primary care trusts have not succeeded i...; Lord Lansley | 513 c676 (Link to this contribution) Yes, and hon. Members will see in the White Paper the way in which we can strengthen the role of Mon...; Lord Lansley | 513 c674 (Link to this contribution) Ah! That was one of the Opposition Whips' handout questions, wasn't it? I will tell the hon. Gentlem...; Bob Blackman | 513 c674 (Link to this contribution) The Secretary of State's announcement will be warmly welcomed in my constituency. On Friday, I went ...; Alex Cunningham | 513 c673-4 (Link to this contribution) The Secretary of State referred to delivering for the patient. Will he guarantee that patients such ...; Lord Lansley | 513 c673 (Link to this contribution) At the risk of repetition, let me say that GPs will be accountable to patients, who will exercise mo...; Jason McCartney | 513 c673 (Link to this contribution) Thousands of patients in my constituency are desperate for specialist maternity care to be returned ...; Speaker | 513 c675 (Link to this contribution) Order. Members really should not chunter, witter or otherwise heckle from a sedentary position, beca...; Lord Lansley | 513 c674-5 (Link to this contribution) Let me tell the hon. Lady that only just over 40% of those who were diagnosed with cancer actually c...; Baroness Stuart of Edgbaston | 513 c674 (Link to this contribution) Prior to 1997, there was no cancer strategy and cancer was not a priority. The Secretary of State is...; Lord Lansley | 513 c674 (Link to this contribution) I can tell my hon. Friend that I am looking to GPs in a locality to create GP commissioning consorti...; Lord Lansley | 513 c677 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend is right. It appears that the Labour party's policy is to cut the NHS. Our policy is ...; Meg Munn | 513 c677 (Link to this contribution) Sheffield is one of the areas that already has GP consortiums. They have been developing their relat...; Lord Lansley | 513 c677 (Link to this contribution) It is not an unwanted change. All over the country, GPs themselves have resisted the concept that th...; Charlotte Leslie | 513 c678 (Link to this contribution) If hon. Members speak to GPs and professionals, who not only sit here and just talk about the NHS, b...; Lord Lansley | 513 c678 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend is absolutely right and expresses her point superbly. The process is going to be abou...; Fiona Mactaggart | 513 c678 (Link to this contribution) Who will have the legal responsibility for delivering the Secretary of State's welcome promise of a ...; Lord Lansley | 513 c678 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Lady will see, in the White Paper and the subsequent legislation, the continuation of the e...; Derek Twigg | 513 c678 (Link to this contribution) It is interesting that the Secretary of State said in the statement, "We will allow any willing prov...; Lord Lansley | 513 c678 (Link to this contribution) I am adopting an any-willing-provider policy that was the policy of the hon. Gentleman's Government,...; Dan Poulter | 513 c678 (Link to this contribution) Is my right hon. Friend aware that Hartismere hospital in my constituency was closed by Suffolk PCT,...; Lord Lansley | 513 c676 (Link to this contribution) Yes, I very much agree. As he knows, his local GPs, patient representative groups and the local auth...; Paul Flynn | 513 c676 (Link to this contribution) How much will be created in additional bureaucracy and new costs by dumping on GPs tasks for which t...; Clive Efford | 513 c677 (Link to this contribution) The Secretary of State seems to misunderstand one thing. When patients go in to be treated by a GP, ...; Speaker | 513 c677 (Link to this contribution) Order. That was four questions, to which one answer will suffice.; Valerie Vaz | 513 c677 (Link to this contribution) The Secretary of State talks about choice in the NHS, but could he confirm that GPs will be given th...; Lord Lansley | 513 c677 (Link to this contribution) GP practices will all have to be members of a consortium, otherwise it will not be possible for them...; Harriett Baldwin | 513 c677 (Link to this contribution) I welcome the fact that my right hon. Friend has said that an extra £20 billion will be going into p...; Lord Lansley | 513 c677 (Link to this contribution) The answer is that I said no such thing as what the hon. Gentleman suggested, and the record will sh...; Lord Lansley | 513 c681 (Link to this contribution) It would be a good idea if Labour Members at least acknowledged that over the last 13 years health i...; Joan Walley | 513 c680 (Link to this contribution) Does the Secretary of State not realise that there are greater health inequalities in some parts of ...; Lord Lansley | 513 c681 (Link to this contribution) I wonder whether the hon. Lady has met doctors in Devon. I have been to their local medical committe...; Alison Seabeck | 513 c681 (Link to this contribution) The right hon. Gentleman talks about empowering GPs—some willingly and some unwillingly, I suspect. ...; Lord Lansley | 513 c680 (Link to this contribution) There is good evidence that physician-led commissioning of services for patients is very effective. ...; Lord Lansley | 513 c680 (Link to this contribution) Many GPs will find that they spend much less time trying to negotiate services for their patients th...; Chris Leslie | 513 c680 (Link to this contribution) But if the Secretary of State is going to force GPs to spend all this extra time on bureaucracy and ...; Emma Reynolds | 513 c680 (Link to this contribution) Wolverhampton primary care trust, working closely with GPs, has been at the forefront of driving imp...; Andrew Gwynne | 513 c679-80 (Link to this contribution) Given that not all primary care trusts are coterminous with local authority areas, how will the publ...; Lord Lansley | 513 c679 (Link to this contribution) Yes, exactly. Last Thursday I was in Cumbria, and that is exactly what has happened there. The GP co...; Sajid Javid | 513 c679 (Link to this contribution) My right hon. Friend will know that community hospitals, including The Princess of Wales community h...; Lord Lansley | 513 c679 (Link to this contribution) The answer is that GP commissioning consortiums will have a responsibility that goes beyond their re...; Lord Lansley | 513 c679 (Link to this contribution) The simple answer is because GP commissioners want to create their own commissioning consortiums acc...; Alan Keen | 513 c679 (Link to this contribution) If the Secretary of State is correct in saying that we need clinicians and GPs to have more influenc...; Lord Lansley | 513 c678-9 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to my hon. Friend for that question. I did in fact visit Hartismere hospital with his ...; Julian Lewis | 513 c673 (Link to this contribution) I congratulate my right hon. Friend on his firm grasp of the subject and on taking an axe to the for...; Lord Lansley | 513 c673 (Link to this contribution) Yes, I am indeed aware of precisely what my hon. Friend says and will certainly take it into account...; Michael Meacher | 513 c673 (Link to this contribution) Given the transfer of £70 billion of NHS funds from PCTs to 500 GP consortiums, the vast majority of...; Lord Lansley | 513 c673 (Link to this contribution) No. That is completely wrong on all counts.; Jeremy Corbyn | 513 c673 (Link to this contribution) The Secretary of State has been asked by many Members about the accountability of GPs, and he has no...; Lord Lansley | 513 c671-2 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to my hon. Friend, who is absolutely right. That is why, as I said in my statement, no...; Lord Lansley | 513 c672 (Link to this contribution) I pay tribute to my hon. Friend's work. He will have noted that I deliberately said both one-year an...; John Baron | 513 c672 (Link to this contribution) I very much welcome the White Paper's increased focus on improving outcomes, and particularly my rig...; Lord Lansley | 513 c672 (Link to this contribution) I do not recognise the hon. Lady's latter point. Some 7% of the population in London are not registe...; Glenda Jackson | 513 c672 (Link to this contribution) Some of the greatest health inequalities occur in areas of the greatest deprivation, which are not i...; Lord Lansley | 513 c671 (Link to this contribution) No, the NHS commissioning board will contract for the primary medical services provided by GPs thems...; Ben Gummer | 513 c671 (Link to this contribution) Could the Secretary of State confirm what will happen to those trusts that have not yet achieved fou...; Lord Lansley | 513 c671 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful for that question, because what is important is that we have coherent reform in relati...; Geoffrey Robinson | 513 c671 (Link to this contribution) Is the Secretary of State aware that those of us who listened to his speeches in opposition were muc...; Lord Lansley | 513 c671 (Link to this contribution) I would encourage the hon. Gentleman to go and talk to GPs in Warwickshire whom I have talked to, an...; Sarah Wollaston | 513 c671 (Link to this contribution) My right hon. Friend recognises how toxic many targets were in the NHS, but they were not all bad. T...; Lord Soames of Fletching | 513 c670 (Link to this contribution) I welcome the Secretary of State's bold and imaginative statement on a White Paper that I am sure wi...; Liz Kendall | 513 c670 (Link to this contribution) The Minister will know that about 80% of patient contact with the NHS is in primary care. Will GP co...; Lord Lansley | 513 c670 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to my hon. Friend. I will not go through the White Paper in detail now, but within it ...; Lord Lansley | 513 c665-6 (Link to this contribution) I am just astonished that the shadow Secretary of State seems to have gone to the barricades for the...; Andy Burnham | 513 c663-5 (Link to this contribution) I thank the right hon. Gentleman for his statement and for giving me advance sight of it, although i...; Lord Lansley | 513 c666 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to my right hon. Friend for his comments. In his capacity as the Chairman of the Selec...; Stephen Dorrell | 513 c666 (Link to this contribution) I congratulate my right hon. Friend on setting out a clear vision for the NHS that is committed to h...; Caroline Flint | 513 c667 (Link to this contribution) Thank you, Mr Speaker. Is it not already the case, in PCTs, that it is clinical directors, who are p...; Speaker | 513 c666 (Link to this contribution) Order. More than 30 hon. and right hon. Members are seeking to catch my eye. As always, I would like...; David Tredinnick | 513 c667 (Link to this contribution) I, too, congratulate my right hon. Friend on his statement. If he is going to get more choice for pa...; Lord Lansley | 513 c667 (Link to this contribution) I am sorry, but when the right hon. Lady was a Minister, she should have talked to more GPs. Overwhe...; Anne Begg | 513 c667 (Link to this contribution) The Secretary of State has not answered the question of my right hon. Friend the Member for Leigh (A...; Lord Lansley | 513 c667 (Link to this contribution) The job of the NHS commissioning board will be to inform GP-led commissioning through scientific evi...; Lord Lansley | 513 c661-3 (Link to this contribution) With permission, Mr Speaker, I would like to make a statement on the future of the national health s...; Austin Mitchell | 513 c676 (Link to this contribution) May I tell the Secretary of State that north-east Lincolnshire has developed an effective care trust...; Lord Lansley | 513 c673 (Link to this contribution) The White Paper will enable GPs in an area, plus their local public and their local authority, to ma...; Nick de Bois | 513 c676 (Link to this contribution) Does the Secretary of State agree that where moratoriums are in place, practising GPs should be enco...; Lord Lansley | 513 c676 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman has not talked to GPs across England who are keen to take on this responsibility....; Lord Lansley | 513 c680 (Link to this contribution) As I am proposing to abolish primary care trusts, the problem of a lack of coterminosity will no lon...; Lord Lansley | 513 c668 (Link to this contribution) Yes, I am grateful to the hon. Gentleman. The number of GP-commissioning consortiums will be determi...; Rachel Reeves | 513 c679 (Link to this contribution) In my constituency, a local charity called Healthy Living Network Leeds is commissioned by the PCT t...
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