"21. On the subject of financial liabilities, what assessment has the Department made of the potential effect of changes to the discount rate on the amount of compensation paid out by the NHS Litigation Authority?..." John Pugh - View Speech
"T4. Will the Minister update the House about NHS litigations, which rocketed to £1.4 billion last year? Are they anything like under control?..." John Pugh - View Speech
That this House has considered accident and emergency services in Merseyside and Cheshire.
It is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Sir Roger, and a pleasure to see the Minister in his place. We spent many a happy hour on the Public Accounts Committee in …..." John Pugh - View Speech
"There is also a petition in Southport, and I am sure there will be petitions wherever in the country this sort of thing happens. As the hon. Gentleman suggests, the ownership of the sustainability and transformation reviews is wholly unclear. No one quite knows who writes the plans, or how …..." John Pugh - View Speech
"Precisely. I am going on to some brief analysis of the problems of A&E, but it is certainly the line in the sand that we must defend.
Elderly people are obviously the major clients for A&E, and Southport by any analysis has an enormous number—a very high percentage—of people who …..." John Pugh - View Speech
"I thank the hon. Lady for that clarification and amplification. There really is a problem with integration, and I do not know how that will be better solved by bringing more organisations—particularly untried organisations—into the fray.
We are all exasperated by watching people make a hash of things and create …..." John Pugh - View Speech
"The hon. Lady reinforces the point that I was going to make next. No one in the NHS locally is in a position to bang heads together and say, “Hang on, what do the public actually want or expect here?” The CCGs speak to NHS England and the Secretary of …..." John Pugh - View Speech
"There was actually an attempt to make clear in that legislation where responsibility lay. I am very familiar with that debate and do not want to re-engage with it at the moment.
There is an absence of a genuine force for integration at a local level. We all know that …..." John Pugh - View Speech