"My Lords, I draw noble Lords’ attention to my registered interest as chairman of King’s Health Partners. The Minister will recognise that, increasingly, pathways of care for the management of chronic diseases will extend across institutional boundaries, both in primary and secondary care, and will be delivered by multidisciplinary teams …..." Lord Kakkar - View Speech
"My Lords, I join other noble Lords in thanking the noble Lord, Lord Liddle, for the thoughtful way in which he introduced this important report. I declare my own interests as chairman of the Office for Strategic Coordination of Health Research. This is not the first report of a Select …..." Lord Kakkar - View Speech
"My Lords, I draw noble Lords’ attention to my registered interest as chairman of King’s Health Partners. In addition to addressing workforce concerns and driving a much-improved culture in the delivery of maternity services, the physical environment in which maternity services are delivered is critically important. These are very frequently …..." Lord Kakkar - View Speech
"My Lords, it is a great pleasure to follow the noble Baroness, Lady Nargund, and in so doing echo her remarks about the remarkable and customarily imaginative and enthusiastic way in which the noble Baroness, Lady Merron, introduced this debate. In so doing, I declare my interests as chairman of …..." Lord Kakkar - View Speech
"That the Report from the Select Committee The conduct of Lord Stone of Blackheath (11th Report of Session 2024-26, HL Paper 295) be agreed to...." Lord Kakkar - View Speech
"My Lords, Lord Stone of Blackheath, the subject of this report, resigned from your Lordships’ House in December last year. Soon after, the commissioner launched an investigation into three complaints, two made by visitors and a third by a member of staff in the Parliamentary Digital Service. The commissioner upheld …..." Lord Kakkar - View Speech
"My Lords, I join other noble Lords in congratulating and thanking my noble friend Lord Patel for having secured this important debate and having introduced it, as he always does, in such a thoughtful and sensitive fashion. In so doing, I remind noble Lords of my own interests as the …..." Lord Kakkar - View Speech
"My Lords, this report is the outcome of the third detailed investigation into Lord Chadlington’s interactions with Ministers and advisers in the Department of Health and Social Care during the Covid-19 pandemic. Given that Lord Chadlington retired from the House following publication of the Conduct Committee’s report, there is no …..." Lord Kakkar - View Speech
"My Lords, I declare my interest as chairman of King’s Health Partners. The Minister made reference to AI stethoscopes aiding in the diagnosis of patients with heart conditions. The evidence for this was established in a very large trial—the TRICORDER trial—involving some 1.5 million patients and more than 200 general …..." Lord Kakkar - View Speech