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Speech in Commons Chamber - Wed 12 Dec 2018
Diabetes: Artificial Pancreas

"I want to echo the point about cost-benefit analyses and how bad the NHS is at joining up different departments’ budgets. It really needs to get better at being able to identify that spend in one area leads to a huge reduction in spending in another...."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Wed 12 Dec 2018
Diabetes: Artificial Pancreas

"Among the most famous type 1 diabetics, we must not forget Sir Steven Redgrave, the Olympic rower...."
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Written Question
Cervical Cancer: Screening
Tuesday 20th November 2018

Asked by: Liz McInnes (Labour - Heywood and Middleton)

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the whether the cervical screening programme IT system is fit for purpose.

Answered by Steve Brine

Following the recent cervical screening incident, announced on 15 November 2018, NHS England has set up a multi-agency clinical panel to manage the incident. Capita has put in place daily audits to ensure all women’s files are accounted for and are looking at how automated processes can be used to reduce errors. Additionally, the checks within the Capita call and recall service have been upgraded at every stage of the process and Capita has appointed an independent audit team to carry out a detailed review into operation systems and processes in Primary Care Support England.

Speech in Commons Chamber - Tue 06 Nov 2018
Assessment and Treatment Units: Vulnerable People

"Can the Minister say what resources will be made available to local councils to enable people with learning disabilities and autism to move out of the units as a matter of urgency and into community placements?..."
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Speech in Westminster Hall - Wed 31 Oct 2018
Hospice Funding and the NHS Pay Award

"I beg to move,

That this House has considered hospice funding and the NHS pay award.

It is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Mr Davies. I welcome everyone to the debate. It is half-past nine in the morning, and the good number of people attending highlights the importance …..."
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Speech in Westminster Hall - Wed 31 Oct 2018
Hospice Funding and the NHS Pay Award

"Of course I agree with the hon. Gentleman, and I will go on to talk about recruitment and retention and the problems that this issue is causing to our hospices in Bolton, in Rochdale and, I am sure, up and down the country.

The chief executive raised three issues with …..."
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Speech in Westminster Hall - Wed 31 Oct 2018
Hospice Funding and the NHS Pay Award

"There is a theme developing on recruitment and retention. We have shortages of particular groups of staff, and a two-tier pay arrangement for different NHS providers will only exacerbate those problems...."
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Speech in Westminster Hall - Wed 31 Oct 2018
Hospice Funding and the NHS Pay Award

"My hon. Friend highlights the problems that hospices up and down the country are experiencing with the recruitment and retention of staff. I will explore those issues further in my speech...."
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Speech in Westminster Hall - Wed 31 Oct 2018
Hospice Funding and the NHS Pay Award

"That is an interesting question. In terms of hospice funding, children’s palliative care tends to receive less NHS funding, so I would imagine the problem is exacerbated for children’s hospices, because they will have to find proportionally more money to fund the pay award than adult hospices. It is an …..."
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Speech in Westminster Hall - Wed 31 Oct 2018
Hospice Funding and the NHS Pay Award

"My hon. Friend is absolutely right. This is the crux of the debate: a pay award has been decided on and agreed with the trade unions, but the Government do not seem able or willing to fund that pay award for non-NHS organisations...."
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