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Accident and Emergency Services: Merseyside and Cheshire

Debate between Rosie Cooper and Roger Gale
Tuesday 22nd November 2016

(7 years, 11 months ago)

Westminster Hall
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Rosie Cooper Portrait Rosie Cooper
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Does the hon. Gentleman agree that STPs are in danger of becoming a managerial exercise in contingency and risk planning, where the NHS speaks to itself? Several years ago, in the Health Committee, I put to Bruce Keogh the charge that where we were going, there would be 30-plus trauma centres in this country and every A&E would be downgraded. With STPs, the NHS is talking to itself, not the communities it serves, and it will come up with that very same plan. I can see that happening in front of me right now.

Roger Gale Portrait Sir Roger Gale (in the Chair)
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Order. I have to make the point that these half-hour debates are specifically the property of the Member in charge. Mr Pugh is entitled to give way to whomever he chooses, but interventions should be interventions, not speeches, and every moment that is taken curtails the opportunity for the Minister to respond.