NHS Long-Term Plan

Matt Warman Excerpts

Monday 18th June 2018 Commons Chamber

[Mr Hunt]

We are doing that work in parallel to the Green Paper, but the hon. Lady is absolutely right to highlight it.

[Matt Warman (Boston and Skegness) (Con)]

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[Afzal Khan (Manchester, Gorton) (Lab)]

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[Mr Hunt]

As the hon. Gentleman knows, we take deprivation into account very seriously when we allocate NHS funding, because it has a direct impact on people’s demand for NHS services, but other things also have an impact on people’s health, such as housing and employment prospects. The bigger lesson is that we need to integrate all our services for our most disadvantaged citizens.

[Matt Warman]

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[Mr Speaker]

I apologise to the hon. Member for Boston and Skegness (Matt Warman), who was missed out just now, but he has the compensation of knowing that he has an adoring audience who now await his important question.

[Matt Warman]

I would never accuse you of misleading the House, Mr Speaker.

I welcome this bold, ambitious and sufficient funding settlement. Does the Secretary of State agree that over this period we will be able to eliminate not just the funding inequalities but the workforce inequalities so that units such as paediatrics at Pilgrim Hospital no longer face the kind of challenges we have historically?