Speech in Commons Chamber - Fri 21 Nov 2014
National Health Service (Amended Duties and Powers) Bill
"The right hon. Gentleman is outlining a thread of continuity very well. Is it not strange that the principal adviser to Alan Milburn has now been appointed by this Government as the head of NHS England? Does that not show that there has been continuity from one Government to another …..."John Pugh - View Speech
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Fri 21 Nov 2014
National Health Service (Amended Duties and Powers) Bill
"It is a pleasure to follow the right hon. Member for Wentworth and Dearne (John Healey), and I agree with most of what he said, but probably not the conclusion.
It gives me pleasure that we are having this debate. I think we all accept that the Bill will not …..."John Pugh - View Speech
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Fri 21 Nov 2014
National Health Service (Amended Duties and Powers) Bill
"If the hon. Member for Eltham (Clive Efford) wished to talk about that, we could happily move away from the internal market where local circumstances required and demanded it. That would be an entirely sensible policy. I see no reason, though, why health boards should not procure goods and services …..."John Pugh - View Speech
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Fri 21 Nov 2014
National Health Service (Amended Duties and Powers) Bill
"The hon. Gentleman is not altogether wrong, but if we are to continue to deliver, in stressed circumstances, a service that is free at the point of need, we cannot run the NHS as an internal market for ever. In fact, the NHS is already trying to morph into something …..."John Pugh - View Speech
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Fri 21 Nov 2014
National Health Service (Amended Duties and Powers) Bill
"If the right hon. Gentleman reminds me, I will endeavour to do so. What I am really hoping for, though, is a change in the conversation about the NHS so that we stop talking about the internal market—Labour Front Benchers have in a sense reneged on their involvement in that—and …..."John Pugh - View Speech
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Fri 21 Nov 2014
National Health Service (Amended Duties and Powers) Bill
"My hon. Friend makes a good point. For those who are unsure about the benefits of the internal market, there is a way of addressing the problem, which is to allow individual health economies, in whatever area—Eltham or wherever—to opt out of the internal market if they can prove that …..."John Pugh - View Speech
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Written Question
Tuesday 9th September 2014
Asked by:
John Pugh (Liberal Democrat - Southport)
Question
to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what assessment his Department has made of the challenges experienced by NHS hospitals in recruiting consultant radiologists.
Answered by Dan Poulter
The Department has set up Health Education England (HEE) to deliver a better health and healthcare workforce for England. It is responsible for the education, training and recruiting for values of doctors.
HEE is responsible for ensuring a secure workforce supply i.e. balance against demand and not a growth or reduction in the National Health Service workforce.
HEE published its national workforce plan for England on 17 December 2013 which increased training places for clinical radiology by 1.3% to a planned level of 1067. The plan forecasts that this level will be sufficient to grow the consultant workforce by 23% in 2020.
Written Question
Tuesday 9th September 2014
Asked by:
John Pugh (Liberal Democrat - Southport)
Question
to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what recent estimate his Department has made of the number of radiologists in training.
Answered by Dan Poulter
Post graduate training for radiologists in England is commissioned locally by the 13 Local Education and Training Boards (LETBs) of Health Education England (HEE). HEE conducts a twice yearly stock-take of its LETBs seeking the number of radiologists in training. The last data available (April 2014) shows 952 individuals in radiology training at the time of the survey.
Speech in Commons Chamber - Thu 28 Nov 2013
Tobacco Packaging
"The Minister says that this is a complex matter, but I am a bit puzzled. What exactly is the downside of plain packaging, apart from fewer fags being sold?..."John Pugh - View Speech
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Tue 26 Nov 2013
Oral Answers to Questions
"T3. What measurable progress is being made in improving data sharing, not just between hospitals and general practitioners, but between the NHS and social services, to avoid bureaucracy and additional cost?..."John Pugh - View Speech
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