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NHS Reform

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Type

Parliamentary proceeding

Reference

526 c767-85 

Session

2010-12

Department

Department of Health

Chamber / Committee

House of Commons chamber

Proceeding contributions

Speaker | 526 c768 (Link to this contribution) Order. The Secretary of State must be heard.

Lord Lansley | 526 c767-8 (Link to this contribution) With permission, Mr Speaker, I should like to make a statement about NHS modernisation. Modernisatio...

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John Healey | 526 c769-70 (Link to this contribution) I thank the Secretary of State for Health for a copy of his statement shortly before he made it this...

Lord Lansley | 526 c768-9 (Link to this contribution) MRSA is at its lowest level since records began. We have helped more than 2,000 patients have access...

Stephen Dorrell | 526 c770-1 (Link to this contribution) All who genuinely wish the NHS well and consider it to be an important part of our national heritage...

Lord Lansley | 526 c770 (Link to this contribution) We heard from the Leader of the Opposition earlier that the NHS needed to change, but once again we ...

Lord Lansley | 526 c771 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to my right hon. Friend. He knows and I know—and past Secretaries of State, with the e...

Lord Lansley | 526 c771 (Link to this contribution) I am sorry that the right hon. Gentleman should denigrate what staff in the NHS have achieved over t...

Speaker | 526 c771 (Link to this contribution) Order. I apologise for interrupting the Secretary of State. I recognise that this subject inflames p...

Lord Lansley | 526 c781 (Link to this contribution) I know that the whole Committee will have been grateful to my hon. Friend for his chairmanship, beca...

Jim Shannon | 526 c781 (Link to this contribution) The Public Bill Committee was one of the busiest since 2002, according to the Clerk, with 26 sitting...

Lord Lansley | 526 c780 (Link to this contribution) The Government are introducing for the very first time a clear limitation and reduction on the runni...

Mike Hancock | 526 c780 (Link to this contribution) As the Secretary of State will be aware, I chaired the majority of the Public Bill Committee's sitti...

Barry Gardiner | 526 c781 (Link to this contribution) The Secretary of State, in his letter to me of 23 March, dismissed my request that he discuss with t...

Lord Lansley | 526 c781 (Link to this contribution) Yes, I can indeed confirm that. Having joined my hon. Friend in Banbury in the past and met GPs ther...

Tony Baldry | 526 c781 (Link to this contribution) GPs in Oxfordshire want to be catalysts for change. Collectively and collegiately, they want to be a...

Lord Lansley | 526 c781 (Link to this contribution) No, I am afraid I do not accept that. All that 100 Divisions demonstrate is that time and again the ...

Duncan Hames | 526 c781 (Link to this contribution) My constituents, who have watched primary care trusts halve the number of community hospital medical...

Lord Lansley | 526 c781 (Link to this contribution) I do not think I dismiss anybody; I might not agree with people, but I do not dismiss them. If I rec...

Lord Lansley | 526 c782 (Link to this contribution) Clearly, this is an area that we will engage in over the coming weeks, but the Bill is already clear...

Diana Johnson | 526 c782 (Link to this contribution) Exactly how long with the natural break be, and how will we know whether the Secretary of State has ...

Lord Lansley | 526 c782 (Link to this contribution) I think the hon. Lady must accept that, because I have come to the House and made it very clear that...

Peter Bone | 526 c782 (Link to this contribution) This has been a very good day for the coalition Government, a great day for the Secretary of State a...

Lord Lansley | 526 c782 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to my hon. Friend. My objective is to ensure that the statutory structure for the NHS ...

Lord Lansley | 526 c783 (Link to this contribution) Let me make it clear to the hon. Lady that many of the things she is describing in Trafford are the ...

Kate Green | 526 c782 (Link to this contribution) Is the Secretary of State aware of the instability that we are experiencing in the management of NHS...

Lord Lansley | 526 c783 (Link to this contribution) Yes, I do join my hon. Friend in applauding the Great West commissioning consortium, because it and ...

Mary MacLeod | 526 c783 (Link to this contribution) I thank my right hon. Friend for standing firm in his desire to improve the NHS. Will he join me in ...

David Anderson | 526 c783 (Link to this contribution) This debate was confused before today. Can the Secretary of State put in writing exactly what things...

Lord Lansley | 526 c777 (Link to this contribution) I will tell the hon. Gentleman one thing: I and my colleagues on the Government Benches talk to peop...

Priti Patel | 526 c777 (Link to this contribution) Excessive bureaucracy and a record level of managers have dominated health care provision in mid-Ess...

Margot James | 526 c779 (Link to this contribution) The Leader of the Opposition stated his willingness to work with the Government on the NHS reforms. ...

Lord Lansley | 526 c778-9 (Link to this contribution) I reiterate the point that I made a moment ago. There is nothing in what I have said today that shou...

Baroness Keeley | 526 c778 (Link to this contribution) Can the Secretary of State say more about the future of care trusts? Integration of health and socia...

Lord Lansley | 526 c778 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to my hon. Friend. We will do that, not only formally across the country but in the in...

Steve Brine | 526 c778 (Link to this contribution) I thank the Secretary of State for his helpful and useful update this afternoon, and welcome his ass...

Lord Lansley | 526 c778 (Link to this contribution) No, I will not, because we are very clear about the strategy and the principles of the Bill. We are ...

Clive Efford | 526 c778 (Link to this contribution) ““No decisions about us without us”” could apply to every single person who works in the NHS who has...

Lord Lansley | 526 c778 (Link to this contribution) Yes, I can. Under the coalition Government, in mid-Essex there has been a 3.2% increase in cash for ...

Lord Lansley | 526 c779 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend makes a very good point. I am not sure which Labour party we would be expected to eng...

Jim Cunningham | 526 c779 (Link to this contribution) It is obvious that the public are extremely concerned about the Bill. Why does the Secretary of Stat...

Lord Lansley | 526 c779 (Link to this contribution) I am afraid the hon. Gentleman does not seem to understand that the public support the principles of...

Lord Lansley | 526 c780 (Link to this contribution) I can assure my hon. Friend that one of the central beauties of the Bill is that in future it will m...

Richard Drax | 526 c780 (Link to this contribution) Can the Secretary of State reassure me that any further listening will mean that retaining local com...

Nicholas Dakin | 526 c780 (Link to this contribution) I share and welcome the Secretary of State's commitment to reduce bureaucracy, so I am concerned to ...

Lord Lansley | 526 c780 (Link to this contribution) Yes.

Alison McGovern | 526 c780 (Link to this contribution) The Prime Minister's commission on the future of nursing and midwifery reported a year ago in March ...

David Rutley | 526 c784 (Link to this contribution) In east Cheshire, there is no lament for the passing of the PCTs. In fact, there is a positive respo...

Lord Lansley | 526 c784 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman might like to talk to Dr Stewart Findlay, who is among those leading the pathfind...

Grahame Morris | 526 c784 (Link to this contribution) I would like to thank the Secretary of State for single-handedly destroying the Government's reputat...

Lord Lansley | 526 c784 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to my hon. Friend. Labour Members sit and laugh about this, but they ought to realise ...

Nadhim Zahawi | 526 c783-4 (Link to this contribution) I congratulate my right hon. Friend on engaging and listening. We have all received the 50 or so e-m...

Lord Lansley | 526 c783 (Link to this contribution) No, the hon. Gentleman misunderstands. I was very clear in my statement and in subsequent responses ...

Lord Lansley | 526 c784-5 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman is wrong on almost every count. We have seen a decade of declining productivity i...

Daniel Byles | 526 c785 (Link to this contribution) Does the Secretary of State share my amazement that in recent months the Labour party seems to have ...

Lord Lansley | 526 c784 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to my hon. Friend. We are not only developing communication with GPs in pathfinder con...

Toby Perkins | 526 c784 (Link to this contribution) The Secretary of State, who tells us how much he studies the NHS, must know that the King's Fund tel...

Lord Lansley | 526 c785 (Link to this contribution) I answered that question earlier.

Tom Blenkinsop | 526 c785 (Link to this contribution) The Secretary of State told my hon. Friend the Member for Scunthorpe (Nic Dakin) that the budget for...

Lord Lansley | 526 c785 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to my hon. Friend. Perhaps having increased the number of managers in the NHS by 70%, ...

Lord Lansley | 526 c785 (Link to this contribution) There is nothing sham about this. This is serious business, not a political game, as it appears to b...

Bill Esterson | 526 c785 (Link to this contribution) Given that the Secretary of State will not instruct NHS managers to take a natural break in implemen...

Lord Lansley | 526 c776 (Link to this contribution) The right hon. Lady must know that we continue to have a record number of midwives in training, and ...

Gordon Birtwistle | 526 c776 (Link to this contribution) The Secretary of State is aware that under the Labour Government, accident and emergency and childre...

Lord Lansley | 526 c776 (Link to this contribution) Yes, my hon. Friend is absolutely right. Locally, he can see how that is happening as GP leaders—inc...

Joan Ruddock | 526 c776 (Link to this contribution) Before the general election, the right hon. Member for Witney (Mr Cameron) promised an extra 3,000 m...

Lord Lansley | 526 c777 (Link to this contribution) Yes. I am grateful to my hon. Friend. Our manifesto was clear that patients should be able to have a...

Dennis Skinner | 526 c777 (Link to this contribution) Why does the Secretary of State not admit that the policy is unravelling before the eyes of the Brit...

Lord Lansley | 526 c777 (Link to this contribution) I am afraid the hon. Gentleman is wrong on a number of counts. First, we have listened and we will c...

Andrew Percy | 526 c777 (Link to this contribution) The Secretary of State will be keen to know that many of the GPs I have met in my constituency are k...

Lord Lansley | 526 c776 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to my hon. Friend. In Burnley and other places—I think not least of Maidstone—decision...

Gerry Sutcliffe | 526 c776-7 (Link to this contribution) It is not only the Health Secretary who cares about the NHS. Most people in the House support the NH...

Lord Lansley | 526 c774-5 (Link to this contribution) I do not have a figure for how many have been re-employed. The hon. Lady will know that under the pr...

Conor Burns | 526 c775 (Link to this contribution) My right hon. Friend will know that many GPs are very excited by the opportunity that his reforms wi...

Lord Lansley | 526 c775 (Link to this contribution) I am very grateful to my hon. Friend. This is born not of political opportunism, as it seems to have...

Valerie Vaz | 526 c775 (Link to this contribution) In the spirit of openness, will the Secretary of State please place in the House of Commons Library ...

Lord Lansley | 526 c775 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Lady should know, as a member of the Health Select Committee, that I wrote to the Chair of ...

David Evennett | 526 c776 (Link to this contribution) I welcome my right hon. Friend's statement. Does he agree that reduced bureaucracy and better local ...

Malcolm Wicks | 526 c775 (Link to this contribution) Why has the Secretary of State waited until now, after the passing of the Bill through its Committee...

Lord Lansley | 526 c775 (Link to this contribution) If I did not come to the House to make a statement, I would be accused of not doing so, but when I d...

Bernard Jenkin | 526 c775 (Link to this contribution) Does my right hon. Friend agree that only the most cynical people could criticise him for wanting to...

Lord Lansley | 526 c775 (Link to this contribution) Yes, I agree. Indeed, in north-east Essex, the consortium under Dr Shane Gordon's leadership is doin...

Lord Lansley | 526 c773 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to my hon. Friend for his remarks. We have now—earlier than any of us had imagined—arr...

Meg Munn | 526 c773 (Link to this contribution) The Secretary of State has spoken a great deal about ill people, but the health service is also, ver...

Lord Lansley | 526 c773-4 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to my right hon. Friend. Before the election, the previous Labour Government said that...

George Howarth | 526 c774 (Link to this contribution) Does the Secretary of State understand that those who care about the future of the NHS believe not o...

Lord Lansley | 526 c774 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman and I know one another well enough to know that we share a commitment to the NHS ...

Baroness Berger | 526 c774 (Link to this contribution) How many managers who have lost their jobs will be re-employed during this pause?

Lord Lansley | 526 c774 (Link to this contribution) No, I do not accept that for a minute. The right hon. Member for Wentworth and Dearne, who sits on t...

John Pugh | 526 c774 (Link to this contribution) I thank the Secretary of State for having the grace and courage to respond to legitimate concerns. G...

Sajid Javid | 526 c773 (Link to this contribution) I warmly welcome my right hon. Friend's efforts in modernising the NHS. The concept of GP commission...

Paul Beresford | 526 c771-2 (Link to this contribution) As the Secretary of State may know, I still have a faint link with the NHS and medicine in general. ...

Lord Lansley | 526 c772 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to my hon. Friend for his remarks. He and other Surrey Members will be aware of that p...

Kevin Barron | 526 c772 (Link to this contribution) Does the Secretary of State recognise that the reorganisation and introduction of competition under ...

Lord Lansley | 526 c772 (Link to this contribution) As we have demonstrated, NHS performance is continuing to improve, and it will improve further with ...

Sarah Newton | 526 c772 (Link to this contribution) I very much welcome the Secretary of State's continued support for the NHS in Cornwall, with the cas...

Lord Lansley | 526 c772 (Link to this contribution) I will indeed do that, and I am very grateful to my hon. Friend for her comments. She represents a C...

Glenda Jackson | 526 c772 (Link to this contribution) The Secretary of State listed in his statement concerns to which he intends to listen, but every sin...

Lord Lansley | 526 c772-3 (Link to this contribution) I am afraid the hon. Lady is completely wrong about that. We have continuously listened. After the p...

Lord Lansley | 526 c779-80 (Link to this contribution) Yes, my hon. Friend makes an important point. When people talk about primary care trust commissionin...

Lord Lansley | 526 c773 (Link to this contribution) If the hon. Lady reads the Bill, she will see that one of its changes that has been most widely supp...

Lord Redwood | 526 c773 (Link to this contribution) Colleagues on this side of the House will know that the Secretary of State has a great passion for t...

Lord Lansley | 526 c771 (Link to this contribution) Thank you, Mr Speaker. I shall not go through a long list, but many services in the NHS have improve...

Ben Bradshaw | 526 c771 (Link to this contribution) Contrary to what the Secretary of State has claimed, waiting times are already lengthening and the q...

Baroness Coffey | 526 c779 (Link to this contribution) My constituents in Suffolk were very concerned at the last election about the fact that only two doc...

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Contracts Competition General practitioners NHS Patients Modernisation Standards Reform

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