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Speech in Commons Chamber - Wed 20 Jan 2021
National Security and Investment Bill

"May I first take the opportunity today to congratulate our friends in the United States? They are one of our longest and most enduring partners, including in the domain of investment, where we are each one of the largest investors in each other’s economy. In fact, 1 million people in …..."
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Written Question
Nurses: Sussex
Wednesday 13th January 2021

Asked by: Andrew Griffith (Conservative - Arundel and South Downs)

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many additional nurses have been recruited to (a) Western Sussex Hospitals NHS Trust and (b) Sussex Community NHS Foundation Trust since December 2019.

Answered by Helen Whately - Shadow Secretary of State for Work and Pensions

NHS Digital publishes Hospital and Community Health Services (HCHS) workforce statistics. These include staff working in hospital trusts and clinical commissioning groups but not staff working in primary care, local authorities or other providers.

It is usual to provide year-on-year figures due to changes in the number of doctors throughout the year being linked to the recruitment and training cycles. The following table shows the change in the number of nurses and health visitors employed in Western Sussex Hospitals NHS Trust and Sussex Community NHS Foundation Trust from both September and December 2019 to September 2020, full-time equivalent.

Nurse and health visitors

Western Sussex Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Sussex Community NHS Foundation Trust

Change since December 2019

66 (4.4%)

24 (1.9%)

Change since September 2019

106 (7.2%)

36 (3.0%)

Source: NHS Digital NHS HCHS workforce statistics

Written Question
Doctors: Sussex
Tuesday 12th January 2021

Asked by: Andrew Griffith (Conservative - Arundel and South Downs)

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many additional doctors have been recruited to (a) Western Sussex Hospitals NHS Trust and (b) Sussex Community NHS Foundation Trust since December 2019.

Answered by Helen Whately - Shadow Secretary of State for Work and Pensions

NHS Digital publishes Hospital and Community Health Services (HCHS) workforce statistics. These include staff working in hospital trusts and clinical commissioning groups but not staff working in primary care, local authorities or other providers.

Year-on-year figures are usually provided due to changes in the number of doctors throughout the year being linked to the recruitment and training cycles. The following table shows the change in the number of doctors employed in Western Sussex Hospitals NHS Trust and Sussex Community NHS Foundation Trust from both September 2019 and December 2019 to September 2020, full-time equivalent.

HCHS doctors

Western Sussex Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Sussex Community NHS Foundation Trust

Change since December 2019

45 (6.1%)

4 (6.2%)

Change since September 2019

60 (8.4%)

4 (6.7%)

Source: NHS Digital NHS HCHS workforce statistics

Speech in Commons Chamber - Tue 12 Jan 2021
Covid-19

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Speech in Commons Chamber - Tue 12 Jan 2021
Covid-19

"I thank my hon. Friend for giving way; I know he will want to make progress. One group is further away from receiving a vaccine: undergraduates who would otherwise be returning to college today. A significant proportion of their education has been disrupted already. Is there any hope that the …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Tue 12 Jan 2021
Covid-19

"It is a great pleasure to follow my friend and Sussex colleague, my hon. Friend the Member for Hastings and Rye (Sally-Ann Hart). Like her, I wish to speak for one group whose plight has been systematically under-represented in this House from the start of the covid pandemic.

A constituent, …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Tue 12 Jan 2021
Covid-19

"My hon. Friend is making exactly the right point in thanking our dedicated health care professionals who, both in the length and the breadth of their contribution, have been very significant. I went to the Pulborough Medical Group late last week to see one of the first vaccine roll-outs in …..."
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Written Question
Health Services: West Sussex
Monday 21st December 2020

Asked by: Andrew Griffith (Conservative - Arundel and South Downs)

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to improve rural communities' access to healthcare in West Sussex.

Answered by Jo Churchill

The Government recognises the specific challenges that rural areas face and the potential for certain health inequalities to develop. We recognise that across West Sussex there are areas of significant rurality, which present particular healthcare challenges, including physical access to services, access to specialist services, social isolation and loneliness, and distance challenges for staff.

The Health and Social Care Act 2012 places a legal duty on clinical commissioning groups to tackle health inequalities. NHS West Sussex is committed to working with its partners, including West Sussex County Council and the district and borough councils across the county, to ensure healthcare is commissioned to address these challenges.

Speech in Public Bill Committees - Thu 10 Dec 2020
National Security and Investment Bill (Twelfth sitting)

"The hon. Lady appears to be advancing two arguments simultaneously. On the one hand, I understand the argument about clarity, which is indeed something that many people would look for in this Bill. However, she also talks about flexibility and that we should not seek to tie the Secretary of …..."
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Speech in Public Bill Committees - Thu 10 Dec 2020
National Security and Investment Bill (Twelfth sitting)

"I do not know how familiar the hon. Gentleman is with the process by which the courts look at the definitions for judicial review, but one of the dangers of trying to write them down—I accept that it is “may” language, not “must”—is that the court will look at them. …..."
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