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Breast Implants

Secondary information

Type

Parliamentary proceeding

Reference

538 c181-98 

Session

2010-12

Department

Department of Health

Chamber / Committee

House of Commons chamber

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PIP Breast Implants and Regulation of Cosmetic Interventions
Tuesday, 24 January 2012
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Written statements
House of Lords

Proceeding contributions

Lord Lansley | 538 c192 (Link to this contribution) I cannot tell the hon. Lady how many clinics the CQC will visit, but it will be a sample of provider...

Valerie Vaz | 538 c192 (Link to this contribution) I thank the Secretary of State for coming to the House and making this statement. How many clinics w...

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Lord Lansley | 538 c191-2 (Link to this contribution) As my hon. Friend points out, to that extent the NHS has always stood behind the private sector prov...

Ian Swales | 538 c191 (Link to this contribution) If the NHS stands behind private providers in such cases, it is effectively providing free indemnity...

Lord Lansley | 538 c191 (Link to this contribution) As I hope the hon. Lady will appreciate from what I said to the right hon. Member for Leigh (Andy Bu...

Sheila Gilmore | 538 c191 (Link to this contribution) The Secretary of State referred in his statement to the possibility that an organisation that had ca...

Yasmin Qureshi | 538 c192 (Link to this contribution) I thank the Secretary of State for his statement. As has been said, most of the cosmetic surgery ind...

Lord Lansley | 538 c192 (Link to this contribution) Given the nature of the work I am asking Sir Bruce Keogh and his group to undertake, it will take th...

Paul Uppal | 538 c192 (Link to this contribution) I also thank the Secretary of State for making the statement. Following on from a vein of questionin...

Lord Lansley | 538 c192 (Link to this contribution) I will do so to an extent. It depends on the nature of the legal contract between a woman and her pr...

Bob Blackman | 538 c193 (Link to this contribution) I welcome the Secretary of State's statement, but PIP is not the sole supplier of breast implants ac...

Lord Lansley | 538 c193 (Link to this contribution) Of course, as the hon. Lady knows, we have been thinking hard about precisely this issue. The NHS Fu...

Heidi Alexander | 538 c194 (Link to this contribution) Yesterday, I was contacted by a constituent who had PIP implants inserted by the Harley Medical Grou...

Lord Lansley | 538 c193-4 (Link to this contribution) I have no evidence of such behaviour on the part of other companies. My hon. Friend is right: PIP is...

Steve Brine | 538 c193 (Link to this contribution) I welcome the Secretary of State's statement. As he knows, I co-chair the all-party group on breast ...

Baroness Stuart of Edgbaston | 538 c193 (Link to this contribution) The question arises of access to records in both the private and NHS sectors. Is it not time to look...

Lord Lansley | 538 c193 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to my hon. Friend and I completely recognise the points he makes. As he will know, the...

Lord Lansley | 538 c194 (Link to this contribution) We have been very clear about the advice we have given to women, and I hope that, through the NHS, a...

Philip Hollobone | 538 c194 (Link to this contribution) What is the Department of Health's central estimate of the number of women who have had breast impla...

Lord Lansley | 538 c194 (Link to this contribution) I am sorry to disappoint my hon. Friend but I cannot offer him such an estimate. We know that some 3...

Lord Lansley | 538 c195 (Link to this contribution) I hope I did not say what the hon. Gentleman ascribes to me. Some 3,000 women, we think, had PIP imp...

Lord Lansley | 538 c194-5 (Link to this contribution) I am afraid that absence of evidence does not mean evidence of absence. We can be very clear, on exp...

Mark Durkan | 538 c194 (Link to this contribution) I acknowledge the Secretary of State's commitment to engaging proactively with the devolved Administ...

Lord Lansley | 538 c196 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend will understand that I cannot speak about the precise details of the situation with t...

Marcus Jones | 538 c195-6 (Link to this contribution) I contacted the Harley Medical Group on behalf of a concerned constituent this morning and was told ...

Lord Lansley | 538 c195 (Link to this contribution) I think I have made it clear that not only the Government but, helpfully, the professional associati...

Paul Flynn | 538 c196 (Link to this contribution) Does the Secretary of State not regret failing to react to the call made last May for British patien...

Lord Lansley | 538 c196 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman says that this body is entirely funded by the industry. It is true that in relati...

Richard Burden | 538 c196 (Link to this contribution) The uncertainty that many women face relates to not only the level of risk associated with PIP impla...

Denis MacShane | 538 c197 (Link to this contribution) Will the Secretary of State send officials to investigate the Birkdale clinic in Rotherham and its e...

Lord Lansley | 538 c196 (Link to this contribution) The chief executive of the NHS wrote to the NHS bodies last week. As the hon. Gentleman will realise...

Jim Shannon | 538 c197 (Link to this contribution) I thank the Secretary of State for his statement and I again highlight the concerns that a great man...

Lord Lansley | 538 c197 (Link to this contribution) I think I have been absolutely clear about what I expect to happen, in relation both to women treate...

Ian Mearns | 538 c198 (Link to this contribution) The Secretary of State has demonstrated his obvious concern for the women affected by this situation...

Lord Lansley | 538 c198 (Link to this contribution) I refer the hon. Gentleman to what I said in my statement: if women are entitled to NHS treatment in...

Lord Lansley | 538 c198 (Link to this contribution) On the hon. Gentleman's final point, I refer him to what I said earlier about how we might deal with...

Lord Lansley | 538 c181-3 (Link to this contribution) With permission, Mr Speaker, I would like to make a statement about PIP breast implants. The House w...

Lord Lansley | 538 c187 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to my right hon. Friend and agree with all his points. I would add that when the Frenc...

Stephen Dorrell | 538 c187 (Link to this contribution) May I welcome my right hon. Friend's statement and the prompt action he has taken over the last few ...

Ann Clwyd | 538 c187 (Link to this contribution) This is not a new issue, as the Secretary of State must know. Twenty years ago I raised the case of ...

Lord Lansley | 538 c186 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to the shadow Health Secretary for his welcome of my statement and the principles behi...

Andy Burnham | 538 c183-5 (Link to this contribution) I thank the Health Secretary for his statement, and for the steps that he is taking to help the thou...

Lord Lansley | 538 c186-7 (Link to this contribution) It may be called devolution. I respect the devolved Administrations and always inform them of what I...

Paul Flynn | 538 c186 (Link to this contribution) It's called devolution.

Lord Lansley | 538 c188 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend is right. When Sir Bruce and his colleagues are considering the establishment of a wi...

Baroness Keeley | 538 c188 (Link to this contribution) I understand that a number of private clinics will not even scan a patient with PIP implants without...

Lord Lansley | 538 c188 (Link to this contribution) I completely understand the right hon. Lady's point, but this activity is not unregulated. For examp...

Sarah Wollaston | 538 c188 (Link to this contribution) I welcome the clear commitment to putting women's health needs first in this context, but is not the...

Chris Bryant | 538 c189 (Link to this contribution) May I suggest to the Secretary of State that the problems in the cosmetic intervention industry may ...

Lord Lansley | 538 c189 (Link to this contribution) I entirely understand my hon. Friend's point. The position we have inherited is that I have no power...

John Pugh | 538 c189 (Link to this contribution) If the Government are paying for something that is needed, it is logical to assume that some private...

Lord Lansley | 538 c188-9 (Link to this contribution) I am sorry that the hon. Lady framed her question in that way, because I thought I had made clear th...

Speaker | 538 c189 (Link to this contribution) Before I call Margot James, let me wish the hon. Member for Rhondda (Chris Bryant) a very happy birt...

Lord Lansley | 538 c189 (Link to this contribution) I will reserve my position on dentistry, because there is a very wide range and cosmetic interventio...

Margot James | 538 c189-90 (Link to this contribution) I commend the Black Country Partnership NHS Foundation Trust on conducting 517 breast implant operat...

Lord Lansley | 538 c190 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to my hon. Friend for what she said about the NHS. I think that before considering whe...

Grahame Morris | 538 c190 (Link to this contribution) I welcome the statement, but may I caution the Secretary of State against placing additional burdens...

Lord Lansley | 538 c190 (Link to this contribution) For reasons that I have already explained, the hon. Gentleman is simply wrong about that. It is nons...

Dan Poulter | 538 c190 (Link to this contribution) I add my support and thanks to the Secretary of State for what he is doing on this very important is...

Fiona Mactaggart | 538 c191 (Link to this contribution) It saddens me that, despite previous reports recommending more effective regulation of the cosmetic ...

Lord Lansley | 538 c190-1 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend makes a number of important and perceptive points. It is, and will continue to be, on...

Penny Mordaunt | 538 c191 (Link to this contribution) I welcome the statement. What has the Secretary of State learned from this episode about the quality...

Lord Lansley | 538 c191 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to the hon. Lady for that suggestion, and I will ask Sir Bruce's group to consider it....

Lord Lansley | 538 c191 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to my hon. Friend for her welcome for the statement. Those seeking cosmetic interventi...

Andrew George | 538 c195 (Link to this contribution) I commend my right hon. Friend's initiative. However, he said the following, which may have been slo...

Toby Perkins | 538 c195 (Link to this contribution) A constituent in Chesterfield contacted me who is at her wits' end. She has been in considerable pai...

Subjects

Costs Health hazards NHS Plastic surgery Private patients Standards Safety Silicone Breasts

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