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Speech in Commons Chamber - Tue 01 Sep 2020
Oral Answers to Questions

"I thank my hon. Friend for her answer. Does she agree that the changes made by Project 2000 in 1986 led to a large group of caring people being excluded from training to be nurses? If we are to recruit many more nurses, this approach should be rethought, with recruits …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Mon 20 Jul 2020
Coronavirus Response

"My South Derbyshire constituents have strong links with Burton and Leicester. In light of the recent spikes in the covid virus there, what steps is my right hon. Friend taking to ensure that local authorities have the necessary powers to take local action to control the virus? Does he agree …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Thu 16 Jul 2020
Covid-19 Update

"Will my right hon. Friend commit to use the experience of what has happened in Leicester to inform future measures in other areas, with a ruling on which essential workers should be able to keep working, with all the appropriate safeguards, such as those in our high-class engineering companies in …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Tue 07 Jul 2020
Coronavirus

"I congratulate my right hon. Friend on answering this urgent question with the usual aplomb, and I also congratulate my hon. Friend the Member for Derbyshire Dales (Miss Dines) on asking about cancer treatment, which is very important up here in Derbyshire. Is there any news about reopening swimming pools? …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Mon 15 Jun 2020
Social Distancing: 2 Metre Rule

"Can my hon. Friend confirm that the comprehensive review launched by the Prime Minister on the 2 metre rule will report back to Government as swiftly as possible? That will be very important to pubs and restaurants in South Derbyshire, which are chomping at the bit to reopen and welcome …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Tue 05 May 2020
Covid-19 Update

"I thank my right hon. Friend for his answers and congratulate him and all the hardworking staff in the NHS and carers on looking after us. Will he support my campaign to have a memorial placed at the National Arboretum at the heart of the country as a fitting way …..."
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Written Question
Primary Health Care
Monday 21st September 2015

Asked by: Heather Wheeler (Conservative - South Derbyshire)

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what steps he is taking to increase capacity in (a) general practice and (b) primary care.

Answered by Alistair Burt

The Government is committed to increasing the primary and community care workforce by at least 10,000 by 2020, including an estimated 5,000 extra doctors working in general practice and a further 5,000 other primary care. To release capacity in general practice we are also are working with NHS England to consider ways that we can reduce bureaucracy and re-shape patient demand.

In order to improve general practitioner (GP) access, £175 million (including £25 million from the Infrastructure Fund) has been invested in the Prime Minister’s GP Access Fund to test improved access to GP services. We have also committed £1 billion to a four year Primary Care Infrastructure Fund, to accelerate improvements in GP premises and infrastructure. Southern Derbyshire Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG) has benefitted from both of these initiatives, having piloted new models of access (e.g. video consultations) through the Access Fund, and also three local GP premises have had their developments approved as part of the 2015/16 Infrastructure Fund.

We are also committed to promoting innovative models of primary care and wider out-of-hospital services, as well as making better use of pharmacists, which will improve capacity by breaking down barriers between care providers. For example community pharmacists can provide support to GPs is by providing seasonal flu vaccinations – a new advanced service under the community pharmacy contractual framework has recently been introduced. Southern Derbyshire CCG is also exploring the potential to pilot clinical pharmacists in general practice to reduce workload pressures on GPs. Furthermore, Dental practices in Derby City have been allocated £600,000 by NHS England to provide access for over 8,000 additional patients per annum.

Speech in Commons Chamber - Tue 07 Jul 2015
Oral Answers to Questions

"10. What progress the Government have made on improving safety in hospitals in special measures...."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Tue 07 Jul 2015
Oral Answers to Questions

"My local hospital, Queen’s hospital in Burton, has worked closely with Monitor to improve while it has been in special measures. Does the Secretary of State agree that, although spending four nights in ward 7 was not the best way for me to start the general election campaign, all the …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Mon 01 Sep 2014
Hospital Car Parking Charges

"Some of my colleagues have talked about parking arrangements needing to change so that instead of getting a ticket at the beginning of their stay, people pay at the end. South Derbyshire has free car parking for everything, but it does not have a hospital, so my constituents have to …..."
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