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Speech in Commons Chamber - Tue 29 Oct 2019
Oral Answers to Questions

"T10. The Royal College of Surgeons reports today that 61% of consultant surgeons have been told not to take up waiting list time reduction initiatives over the winter because of the NHS tax trap. Will the Secretary of State please engage with the Treasury and appeal to it to sort …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Tue 08 Oct 2019
Baby Loss Awareness Week

"I share the sentiments of the hon. Member for North East Fife (Stephen Gethins): collaboration is critical. One of my constituents raised with me concerns about the fact that there was no peer-to-peer support provided by the medical profession. She was dealing with her GP, but she relied for support …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Tue 23 Jul 2019
Oral Answers to Questions

"T1. If he will make a statement on his departmental responsibilities...."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Tue 23 Jul 2019
Oral Answers to Questions

"Another item for the Secretary of State’s list might be to engage with his counterpart in Scotland on the issue of the NHS taper on the pensions programme. When I raised the issue with a Treasury Minister, she seemed unaware that there was more than one NHS in the UK. …..."
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Speech in Westminster Hall - Tue 16 Jul 2019
Drug Treatment Services

"Thank you for calling me to speak, Mr Hollobone. I congratulate my hon. Friend the Member for Manchester, Withington (Jeff Smith) on an excellent introduction to the debate and on the vital points he made.

Last week, one of my constituents, Chelsea Bruce, died of a drugs overdose. She was …..."
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Speech in Westminster Hall - Tue 16 Jul 2019
Drug Treatment Services

"Does the Minister accept that it is within the remit of the Department of Health and Social Care to consider the possibility of not only drug consumption rooms but expanding the scope, based on a heroin-assisted treatment facility, to provide safe prescribing clinics, which have far lower thresholds and which …..."
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Speech in Westminster Hall - Wed 26 Jun 2019
NHS Pensions

"Thank you, Mr Gray, for your kindness in letting me participate in the debate. It is, as always, a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship. I apologise for my late arrival.

I congratulate the hon. Member for Poole (Sir Robert Syms) on securing the debate, and the hon. Member for …..."
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Speech in Westminster Hall - Wed 26 Jun 2019
NHS Pensions

"The Minister says that the tax changes are likely to have an impact on patient care. They are already having an impact; my constituent has said that he is seeing anaesthetic cancellations on theatre lists at his hospital in Glasgow, which have never been seen before in the NHS. He …..."
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Speech in Westminster Hall - Tue 02 Apr 2019
NHS Pension Scheme: Tapered Annual Allowance

"The hon. Gentleman is making a powerful, forensic speech on this critical issue facing the national health service. Several of my constituents have been in touch about it. One consultant mentioned that the impact of this issue on NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde will be huge, because waiting list initiatives …..."
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Written Question
Community Care: Learning Disability
Monday 1st April 2019

Asked by: Paul Sweeney (Labour (Co-op) - Glasgow North East)

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to ensure that his Department will meet its target under Transforming Care on time.

Answered by Caroline Dinenage

The objective of the Transforming Care programme, as set out in ‘Building the Right Support’, was to reduce the number of people with learning disability and/or autism who were mental health inpatients by 35-50% by the end of March 2019 (compared to a 2015 baseline). So far, there has been just over a 20% reduction.

The NHS Long Term Plan commits to achieve at least a 50% reduction in inpatients (compared to the 2015 baseline) by the end of 2023/24. NHS England is committed to achieving a 35% reduction during 2019/20. This is set out in the NHS Planning Guidance, which for clinical commissioning groups and specialised commissioning requires a reduction in reliance on inpatient care to 18.5 inpatients per million adult population by March 2020.

The Department will hold NHS England and other delivery partners to account on achieving this.