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Speech in Commons Chamber - Tue 19 May 2020
Coronavirus and Care Homes

"In Harrogate and Knaresborough, and across North Yorkshire, the county council has established a step-down facility for patients being discharged from hospital, using care homes with segregated spaces, and in Boroughbridge an entire care home, effectively as a form of quarantine facility. That is in addition to the testing and …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Tue 11 Feb 2020
Wuhan Coronavirus

"I thank my right hon. Friend for updating the House today. I think that that statement will reassure my constituents, some of whom have contacted me with concerns about the way that the disease is spreading. Will he continue to keep the House updated, particularly as infection control measures are …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Tue 08 Oct 2019
Baby Loss Awareness Week

"I associate myself with the Minister’s positive words about my right hon. Friend the Member for South West Surrey (Mr Hunt) and all he did to improve patient safety in the NHS. It was a fantastic piece of work.

Mr and Mrs Pickup of Knaresborough have suffered significant personal loss …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Mon 30 Sep 2019
Health Infrastructure Plan

"May I congratulate my hon. Friend on his statement, which is so encouraging because it demonstrates our long-term ambitious plans for the NHS? I was particularly pleased to see the investment in CT scanners as technology and medicine are moving so fast. Does he agree that the screening programmes in …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Tue 16 Oct 2018
Clinical Waste Incineration

"I thank my hon. Friend for the reassurance that there is enough capacity in the incineration system to deal with this issue, but will he confirm that the delays caused by Healthcare Environmental Services have not had an impact on the capacity for patients to receive the treatment that they …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Tue 24 Jul 2018
Oral Answers to Questions

"The maternity unit at Harrogate Hospital is award winning due to the skills and compassion of its fantastic team. What action is my hon. Friend taking to encourage more people into maternity care and midwifery careers?..."
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Written Question
Mental Health Services
Tuesday 17th July 2018

Asked by: Andrew Jones (Conservative - Harrogate and Knaresborough)

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to ensure that funding allocated to tackling mental illness is spent on that issue.

Answered by Jackie Doyle-Price

The Five Year Forward View for Mental Health Dashboard reports detail on the expenditure made by National Health Service clinical commissioning groups (CCGs) on mental health services. It is available at the following link:

https://www.england.nhs.uk/mental-health/taskforce/imp/mh-dashboard

CCGs are required each year, under the Mental Health Investment Standard (MHIS), to increase their spend on mental health services by a greater amount than the growth in their overall programme allocation. The requirement to meet the MHIS is included within the NHS Operational Planning and Contracting Guidance 2017–2019 and is a key part of NHS England’s operational and financial planning assurance process for 2018/19.

Written Question
Hospitals: Standards
Monday 16th July 2018

Asked by: Andrew Jones (Conservative - Harrogate and Knaresborough)

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what policies he plans to bring forward to enable more hospitals to meet the targets on waiting times for (a) A&E treatment, (b) cancer treatment and (c) planned operations and care.

Answered by Steve Barclay

The Government’s Mandate to NHS England for 2018-19 is clear that it is to maintain and improve performance against core patient access standards including accident and emergency (A&E), cancer and planned operations and care-Referral to Treatment (RTT).

The Government expects the National Health Service to deliver the actions set out in the NHS Planning Guidance for 2018-19 – in full – as key steps towards fully recovering performance against core access standards. This means treating a quarter of a million more patients in A&E, halving the number who have the longest waits for treatment and working towards reducing the number of patients waiting overall. We gave the NHS top priority in the 2017 budget with an additional £2.8 billion of funding for the NHS between 2017-18 and 2019-20, and this has been reflected in the mandate.

To provide the NHS with financial stability, the longer-term plan, announced last month will see NHS funding increase by £20.5 billion per year by 2023/24, the end of the first five years compared with today.

Speech in Commons Chamber - Wed 20 Jun 2018
Gosport Independent Panel: Publication of Report

"We have had Mid Staffs, Morecambe Bay and now the Gosport War Memorial Hospital. That tells us that significant patient failures are not one-offs; indeed, the Francis report of 2013 was one of the most challenging public documents I have ever read. My right hon. Friend has made patient safety …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Tue 19 Jun 2018
Oral Answers to Questions

"T7. Prostate cancer survival rates may be at a record high, but it is still among the biggest cancer killers in our country today. What can the Government do to save more lives in this area?..."
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