Speech in Westminster Hall - Tue 18 Jan 2022
Covid-19: Forecasting and Modelling
"I think with one exception that was a very good debate. We all agree that we need good science, and we all agree that scientists have power, like politicians. We have the right, in the public interest, to question these people. It was fascinating listening to some of my hon. …..."Bob Seely - View Speech
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Written Question
Monday 17th January 2022
Asked by:
Bob Seely (Conservative - Isle of Wight)
Question
to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will take steps to increase support for the provision of independent pharmacies and dentists on the Isle of Wight.
Answered by Maria Caulfield
The need for pharmaceutical services is assessed on a three-yearly basis by local authority Health and Wellbeing Boards. The current assessment for the Isle of Wight concluded that the number and distribution of services is adequate to provide pharmaceutical services to the population. NHS England and NHS Improvement are working with Portsmouth Clinical Commissioning Group and the local authority to consider how the provision of dentistry in the Isle of Wight can be supported.
Written Question
Monday 17th January 2022
Asked by:
Bob Seely (Conservative - Isle of Wight)
Question
to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department will take to increase the supply of NHS dental places and appointments in (a) the Isle of Wight and (b) other rural and isolated communities.
Answered by Maria Caulfield
NHS England and NHS Improvement are developing proposals for dental system reform, with the Department and key stakeholders. This aims to improve patient access and oral health, offer value for money for the National Health Service and be designed with the profession. Any reforms will seek to improve provision in such areas by making the NHS dental offer more attractive for dentists.
Health Education England’s Advancing Dental Care Education and Training Review programme is addressing oral health needs through changes to the workforce. This includes opportunities for flexible core and specialty training pathways to improve career progression and retention, including in rural and isolated communities. The programme will also look at the placement of postgraduate dental training places into areas of greatest need, such as rural communities. NHS England and NHS Improvement are working with Portsmouth Clinical Commissioning Group and the local authority to consider how to improve dentistry provision in the Isle of Wight.
Speech in Commons Chamber - Tue 14 Dec 2021
Public Health
"Me? I am sorry, Madam Deputy Speaker, I could not hear you over the appreciation for the speech of my hon. Friend the Member for Penistone and Stocksbridge (Miriam Cates).
I strongly support getting vaccinated. I had my booster jab two weeks ago. I thank all Islanders who are engaged …..."Bob Seely - View Speech
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Tue 14 Dec 2021
Public Health
"I understand the nuanced point that my right hon. Friend is making, but on the forecasts, does he accept that many academics have doubted the previous forecasts, describing them as “hysterical”, “substantially inflated”, “consistently overconfident”, “lurid” and “severely flawed”? We have had a problem with inaccurate forecasts. Does he accept …..."Bob Seely - View Speech
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Tue 14 Dec 2021
Public Health
"The hon. Gentleman is making a very good speech, and I apologise for interrupting him, but on a point of science, will he just accept that he has got it a little bit wrong? Someone having the vaccine does not stop them spreading it; it just makes it much less …..."Bob Seely - View Speech
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Tue 30 Nov 2021
Public Health
"It is pleasure to follow my hon. Friend the Member for Wycombe (Mr Baker) and my right hon. Friend the Member for Forest of Dean (Mr Harper). I thank them for their fantastic leadership on this issue.
I want to develop one point specifically: I believe that Government must take …..."Bob Seely - View Speech
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Tue 30 Nov 2021
Public Health
"The hon. Gentleman makes the point most eloquently. Politicians then become fearful. They think, “What if the worst-case scenario is right?”, and lose faith in more balanced predictions.
John Ioannides from Stanford University said of Ferguson’s modelling that
“major assumptions and estimates that are built in the calculations seem to …..."Bob Seely - View Speech
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Tue 30 Nov 2021
Public Health
"Does my right hon. Friend share my frustration that we have all these charts about covid, but we have never had them in context—how many people are born, how many people die, how many people die of flu, how many people die of other illnesses—so we have become fixated by …..."Bob Seely - View Speech
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Mon 29 Nov 2021
Covid-19 Update
"Will the Secretary of State, on behalf of the Government, reassure me that the Foreign Office and its consular service will be doing all they can? I am already receiving calls from Islanders stuck in southern Africa who are worried about their ability to get back...."Bob Seely - View Speech
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