Written Question
Monday 13th January 2025
Asked by:
Bernard Jenkin (Conservative - Harwich and North Essex)
Question
to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to his Oral Statement of 6 January 2026 on Health and Adult Social Care Reform, Official Report, Column 597, where new diagnostic centres in (a) Essex and (b) Suffolk will be based.
Answered by Karin Smyth
- Minister of State (Department of Health and Social Care)
The Elective Reform Plan, published on 6 January 2025, sets out that we will deliver additional community diagnostic centre (CDC) capacity in 2025/26 by expanding a number of existing CDCs and building up to five new ones.
Capital investment agreed at the 2025 Spending Review and announced in the Autumn Statement will be allocated to local National Health Service systems by NHS England, and details on this will be released as part of upcoming capital planning guidance. The investment will support a range of initiatives, including supporting systems to deliver against the government's ambition to return to the 18-week constitutional standard.
NHS England will work with local systems to identify the most appropriate locations for investments, including new CDCs, and expansions of existing CDCs. A key factor they will consider is that new CDCs are positioned in a location which addresses local need and will address health inequalities.
Written Question
Wednesday 18th May 2022
Asked by:
Bernard Jenkin (Conservative - Harwich and North Essex)
Question
to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, when the provisions of the Health and Care Act in respect of the Health Services Safety Investigation Body will be brought into force, and if he will make a statement.
Answered by Maria Caulfield
We intend to commence provisions to enable the Health Services Safety Investigation Body to be established and fully operational by April 2023.
Speech in Commons Chamber - Wed 08 Dec 2021
Covid-19 Update
"My right hon. Friend obviously understands that these measures will try the patience of the British people. Will he look at the other measures that can suppress the virus, particularly the booster rate? Does he agree that the rate of booster vaccinations is constrained not by supply or demand, but …..."Bernard Jenkin - View Speech
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Fri 03 Dec 2021
Health and Social Care
"I thank my hon. Friend for his statement. Can he confirm that it is the Government’s policy to encourage the reopening of mass vaccination centres to get through the bulge of booster jabs that we need? In that regard, will he congratulate the South Suffolk & North East Essex integrated …..."Bernard Jenkin - View Speech
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Thu 21 Oct 2021
Covid-19 Update
"On the devolution point, let us remember it is a two-way street. There may well be things that we can learn from the Scottish Government that they have done better and differently from the United Kingdom Government, and we should not be shy about that, but we should also point …..."Bernard Jenkin - View Speech
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Mon 19 Jul 2021
Covid-19 Update
"I thank my hon. Friend for his statement, but I confess to some disappointment that the daily vaccination rate is not being sustained at a higher level. What is the constraint? Is it supply, is it logistics or is it that the hard-to-reach groups are slower in coming forward? What …..."Bernard Jenkin - View Speech
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Wed 14 Jul 2021
Health and Care Bill
"In passing, may I congratulate my right hon. Friend on his appointment? I also very much welcome part 4 of the Bill, which introduces the health services safety investigations body. This is a great innovation that was promoted by the Public Administration Committee and scrutinised by the Joint Committee that …..."Bernard Jenkin - View Speech
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Tue 29 Jun 2021
NHS Integrated Care System Boundaries
"I am sorry that this debate is unlikely to be the penalty shoot-out that some people may have been looking for.
We know that the Government are about to publish a new Bill on the NHS, but it is not widely known or understood that the NHS in England is …..."Bernard Jenkin - View Speech
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Tue 29 Jun 2021
NHS Integrated Care System Boundaries
"I will come to that point later; I shall not want to repeat myself...."Bernard Jenkin - View Speech
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Tue 29 Jun 2021
NHS Integrated Care System Boundaries
"I was anxious to give way to the hon. Gentleman to show that there is cross-party concern about this matter; I am sure that his point will be enlarged upon by my right hon. Friend the Member for Maidenhead (Mrs May).
All this is being put at risk at a …..."Bernard Jenkin - View Speech
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