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Written Question
NHS: Finance
Monday 2nd March 2015

Asked by: Paul Burstow (Liberal Democrat - Sutton and Cheam)

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will request that NHS England review its policy on individual funding requests.

Answered by George Freeman

We have no such plans. We understand that NHS England is currently reviewing its generic policies, including its interim commissioning policy on individual funding requests.

Speech in Commons Chamber - Tue 24 Feb 2015
Oral Answers to Questions

"Eight out of 10 people say that they would prefer to die at home when their time comes. Since the Government published their White Paper and said that they saw merit in social care being free at the end of life, a succession of reports from Macmillan, Nuffield and others …..."
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Written Question
Heart Diseases
Thursday 12th February 2015

Asked by: Paul Burstow (Liberal Democrat - Sutton and Cheam)

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many admissions to hospital with a (a) primary and (b) secondary diagnosis of coronary heart disease per head of population there were in (i) each clinical commissioning group and its predecessor organisation and (ii) England in each of the last 10 years.

Answered by Jane Ellison

The following tables show the number of admissions to hospital with a primary and secondary diagnosis of coronary heart disease by primary care trust of treatment for the years 2004/05 to 2012/13; by clinical commissioning group of treatment for 2013/14 and for England as a whole.

Speech in Commons Chamber - Thu 05 Feb 2015
GP Services

"The hon. Lady is now drawing a very important distinction between some fragmentation and fracturing in how decisions are made. That criticism has been levelled at the legislation, but it is not the same criticism she was making initially, which was about privatisation. We know that only 6% of NHS …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Thu 05 Feb 2015
GP Services

"I thank the hon. Member for Halton (Derek Twigg) for securing this debate. My name was on the application, but he was the person who made the argument that persuaded the Backbench Business Committee. I apologise to him for not being here for his opening remarks or for those of …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Thu 05 Feb 2015
GP Services

"Absolutely, and certainly in its local planning my local authority does exactly that—it looks at what the community facility needs are. In the southern part of my constituency, in south Sutton, there has been some controversy over plans for a new GP centre. It is planned on a piece of …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Thu 05 Feb 2015
GP Services

"It is said that we need about half of all trainees to go into general practice and, at the moment, only 2,700 of the more than 3,250 places that are available are being filled. That is an issue, but it sits in the context of a global workforce pressure when …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Thu 05 Feb 2015
Improving Cancer Outcomes

"Thank you, Madam Deputy Speaker. I wish to echo that very point. Some of the best debates that we have in this House, and certainly some of the best Back-Bench business debates, are ones in which people bring their own personal experience and their own stories. My hon. Friend the …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Thu 05 Feb 2015
Improving Cancer Outcomes

"Personally, I think that at some point there must be a legal challenge as to whether that places ageist assumptions at the heart of the NHS. The fastest growing part of our population are the over-85s. How on earth can it be that we do not have statistics that allow …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Thu 05 Feb 2015
Improving Cancer Outcomes

"The hon. Gentleman is making the important point that we must debate the resourcing of the national health service. I made the point that removing inexplicable and unfair variation in access to early treatment for cancer will not cost more, but will save money...."
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