Speech in Lords Chamber - Tue 14 Dec 2021
Health and Social Care Act 2008 (Regulated Activities) (Amendment) (Coronavirus) (No. 2) Regulations 2021
"Leave out from “that” to the end and insert “this House declines to approve the draft Health and Social Care Act 2008 (Regulated Activities) (Amendment) (Coronavirus) (No. 2) Regulations 2021 because Her Majesty’s Government have not published a full impact assessment”...."Baroness Noakes - View Speech
View all Baroness Noakes (Con - Life peer) contributions to the debate on: Health and Social Care Act 2008 (Regulated Activities) (Amendment) (Coronavirus) (No. 2) Regulations 2021
Speech in Lords Chamber - Tue 14 Dec 2021
Health and Social Care Act 2008 (Regulated Activities) (Amendment) (Coronavirus) (No. 2) Regulations 2021
"My Lords, I thank my noble friend the Minister for introducing this order with his customary clarity. I tabled my amendment because when I read the excellent report of your Lordships’ Secondary Legislation Committee, I saw red. This was yet another set of regulations from the Department of Health and …..."Baroness Noakes - View Speech
View all Baroness Noakes (Con - Life peer) contributions to the debate on: Health and Social Care Act 2008 (Regulated Activities) (Amendment) (Coronavirus) (No. 2) Regulations 2021
Speech in Lords Chamber - Tue 14 Dec 2021
Health and Social Care Act 2008 (Regulated Activities) (Amendment) (Coronavirus) (No. 2) Regulations 2021
"My Lords, I thank all noble Lords who supported the points I made about needing better information for parliamentary scrutiny of government policy. This was very ably led by my noble friend Lord Cormack who put it very well when he talked about treating Parliament with contempt. That was echoed …..."Baroness Noakes - View Speech
View all Baroness Noakes (Con - Life peer) contributions to the debate on: Health and Social Care Act 2008 (Regulated Activities) (Amendment) (Coronavirus) (No. 2) Regulations 2021
Speech in Lords Chamber - Wed 01 Dec 2021
Health Protection (Coronavirus, Wearing of Face Coverings) (England) Regulations 2021
"My Lords, I first support what my noble friend Lady Neville-Rolfe said about impact assessments. In fact, I have tabled a Motion on a later coronavirus order regretting the lack of impact statements, which I look forward to debating with the Minister in due course.
I start by recording what …..."Baroness Noakes - View Speech
View all Baroness Noakes (Con - Life peer) contributions to the debate on: Health Protection (Coronavirus, Wearing of Face Coverings) (England) Regulations 2021
Speech in Lords Chamber - Tue 20 Jul 2021
Health and Social Care Act 2008 (Regulated Activities) (Amendment) (Coronavirus) Regulations 2021
"My Lords, whether or not noble Lords agree with the intent behind this statutory instrument, they ought to share my deep sense of outrage at how Parliament is being treated.
We have become inured to the cavalier way in which the Department of Health and Social Care uses secondary legislation …..."Baroness Noakes - View Speech
View all Baroness Noakes (Con - Life peer) contributions to the debate on: Health and Social Care Act 2008 (Regulated Activities) (Amendment) (Coronavirus) Regulations 2021
Speech in Lords Chamber - Thu 25 Mar 2021
Covid-19: One Year Report
"My Lords, I am sorry; I was carried away by the previous speaker...."Baroness Noakes - View Speech
View all Baroness Noakes (Con - Life peer) contributions to the debate on: Covid-19: One Year Report
Speech in Lords Chamber - Thu 25 Mar 2021
Covid-19: One Year Report
"It is some time since I have spoken in a coronavirus debate in your Lordships’ House but my issues with the Government’s policies are fundamentally unchanged. The Government continue to make policy in a coronavirus vacuum as if the only thing that matters is the virus and its impact on …..."Baroness Noakes - View Speech
View all Baroness Noakes (Con - Life peer) contributions to the debate on: Covid-19: One Year Report
Written Question
Monday 1st February 2021
Asked by:
Baroness Noakes (Conservative - Life peer)
Question
to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask Her Majesty's Government what estimate they have made of how many primary care networks have no GP practices which are delivering COVID-19 vaccines to patients.
Answered by Lord Bethell
NHS England and NHS Improvement commissioned the general practice COVID-19 vaccination service in line with agreed national terms and conditions, as an enhanced service (ES). Individual general practices were able to opt in to deliver the vaccine, coming together in Primary Care Network groupings to administer the vaccine as local vaccination services. As of 15 January 2021, 992 local vaccination services have opened to administer the vaccine. The number of individual general practices which have or have not opted into the ES is not collected or held centrally.
Equal access to COVID-19 vaccinations is a key consideration for planning and deployment of the vaccine programme. Where there are gaps in provision, NHS England will commission additional providers such as community pharmacy, hospital hubs and mass vaccination centres to provide vaccinations. The first community pharmacy sites began delivering the vaccinations from 11 January.
Written Question
Monday 1st February 2021
Asked by:
Baroness Noakes (Conservative - Life peer)
Question
to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask Her Majesty's Government whether they plan to take any action in relation to primary care networks which chose not to deliver COVID-19 vaccines to patients within their area.
Answered by Lord Bethell
NHS England and NHS Improvement commissioned the general practice COVID-19 vaccination service in line with agreed national terms and conditions, as an enhanced service (ES). Individual general practices were able to opt in to deliver the vaccine, coming together in Primary Care Network groupings to administer the vaccine as local vaccination services. As of 15 January 2021, 992 local vaccination services have opened to administer the vaccine. The number of individual general practices which have or have not opted into the ES is not collected or held centrally.
Equal access to COVID-19 vaccinations is a key consideration for planning and deployment of the vaccine programme. Where there are gaps in provision, NHS England will commission additional providers such as community pharmacy, hospital hubs and mass vaccination centres to provide vaccinations. The first community pharmacy sites began delivering the vaccinations from 11 January.
Written Question
Monday 1st February 2021
Asked by:
Baroness Noakes (Conservative - Life peer)
Question
to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask Her Majesty's Government, further to the answer by Lord Bethell that “the nosocomial infection that we are seeing is at dramatically lower rates that it was in the past” in relation to COVID-19 on 12 November (HL Deb, col 1256), to quantify the reduction of nosocomial infection rate which took place in the period referred to.
Answered by Lord Bethell
Given the incubation period of the virus and local differences in application of testing protocols, it is not possible to definitively determine the number of people who contracted the virus while in hospital in England to date.
In my answer of 12 November I did not make a direct comparison with hospital cases, but with the number of COVID-19 cases overall, taking into account nosocomial infections in other settings.