Speech in Lords Chamber - Thu 23 Apr 2020
Covid-19: Social Care Services
"I congratulate my noble friend Lady Wheeler on initiating this debate and on her very powerful speech. I should declare an interest, in that a member of my family has been in care homes over the years and now has support in his own home, so I have some experience …..."Lord Dubs - View Speech
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Speech in Lords Chamber - Thu 09 Jan 2020
Queen’s Speech
"My Lords, it is a great pleasure to follow my noble friend Lady Blower and to congratulate her on her maiden speech. She was being unduly modest, because she has an enormous amount of educational experience, not just, as she said, as general secretary of the National Union of Teachers; …..."Lord Dubs - View Speech
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Speech in Lords Chamber - Mon 15 Jul 2019
Childhood Obesity
"My Lords, the Minister will no doubt be aware that the British-Irish Parliamentary Assembly some time ago produced a report on childhood obesity. Does the Minister agree, dipping into that report, that we need not only a national strategy but—as demonstrated to the committee in Amsterdam—a local strategy, where the …..."Lord Dubs - View Speech
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Speech in Lords Chamber - Thu 13 Dec 2018
Childhood Obesity
"My Lords, the British-Irish Parliamentary Assembly produced a report some months ago on childhood obesity, covering all the jurisdictions it represents. Could the Minister take another look at that, because a number of issues came out of it—for example, the need for local authorities to take action, the need for …..."Lord Dubs - View Speech
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Speech in Lords Chamber - Thu 05 Jul 2018
The NHS
"My Lords, I congratulate my noble friend Lord Darzi on initiating the debate and on his speech.
Exactly 70 years ago today, I was a patient in Stockport Infirmary. I was quite ill. In those days, when the consultant did his rounds it was like God visiting, with a team …..."Lord Dubs - View Speech
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Speech in Lords Chamber - Thu 21 Jun 2018
Childhood Obesity: Yoga
"My Lords, while yoga is undoubtedly important—although I know nothing about it—surely there is one simple point about childhood obesity: excessive sugar consumption, in drinks or elsewhere. We have to tackle that much more positively. I hope that the Government’s new plan will do that...."Lord Dubs - View Speech
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Written Question
Monday 20th November 2017
Asked by:
Lord Dubs (Labour - Life peer)
Question
to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask Her Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of (1) advances in treatments for multiple sclerosis for NHS patients, including the recently approved first short course oral treatment, cladribine tablets; and (2) the extent to which new treatments will help to reduce burdens on NHS services.
Answered by Lord O'Shaughnessy
The Department has made no such assessment.
Through its technology appraisal programme, the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) makes recommendations on whether selected drugs and treatments represent a clinically and cost effective use of National Health Service resources, taking into account the impact on the health service of a product.
NICE is currently developing guidance on the use of cladribine for treating multiple sclerosis and expects to publish final guidance in December.
Written Question
Monday 20th November 2017
Asked by:
Lord Dubs (Labour - Life peer)
Question
to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask Her Majesty's Government what steps they are taking to improve NHS patient access to the latest innovative cost-effective medicines for multiple sclerosis.
Answered by Lord O'Shaughnessy
Through its technology appraisal programme, the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) makes authoritative, evidence-based recommendations for the National Health Service on the clinical and cost effective use of drugs and other treatments. Wherever possible, NICE aims to publish draft guidance on significant new drugs as soon as possible after licensing. NICE has recommended a number of drugs as treatments for multiple sclerosis.
Commissioners are legally required to fund drugs and treatments recommended in NICE technology appraisal guidance within three months of its final guidance being issued. This is reflected in the NHS Constitution as a right to NICE approved drugs.
Speech in Lords Chamber - Wed 18 Oct 2017
Hospitals: West London
"To ask Her Majesty’s Government what are their plans for the future of hospitals in West London, particularly in relation to their proposals to sell off much of the site of the existing Charing Cross hospital...."Lord Dubs - View Speech
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Speech in Lords Chamber - Wed 18 Oct 2017
Hospitals: West London
"My Lords, when the local London elections took place in 2014 everybody was surprised that Hammersmith and Fulham went to Labour—everyone except those of us who were knocking on doors like mad to try to win the council for Labour, which was of course the outcome. It was clear from …..."Lord Dubs - View Speech
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