Medicines and Medical Devices Safety Review Debate

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Philip Hollobone

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Medicines and Medical Devices Safety Review

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Wednesday 21st February 2018

(6 years, 2 months ago)

Commons Chamber
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Jeremy Hunt Portrait Mr Hunt
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I am happy to do so, but this review is obviously separate from the things that are happening in Scotland. However, we will certainly look at all those issues.

Philip Hollobone Portrait Mr Philip Hollobone (Kettering) (Con)
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This is the first chance I have had to thank the Secretary of State for visiting Kettering General Hospital last week, and I do so now. It is a laudable and oft-stated ambition that the NHS should be the world’s safest healthcare system. Are we there yet? If not, when will we be?

Jeremy Hunt Portrait Mr Hunt
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International experts from the Commonwealth Fund in New York say that we are the safest healthcare system in the world, but that gives me pause for thought because there is still so much avoidable harm and death in our system right now. If we are the safest, that says that healthcare everywhere needs to improve.

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