A and E (Major Incidents)

Richard Graham Excerpts
Wednesday 7th January 2015

(9 years, 3 months ago)

Commons Chamber
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John Bercow Portrait Mr Speaker
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Order. I really am keen to accommodate remaining colleagues, because I understand the interest in this subject. May I appeal to colleagues to put single, short supplementary questions without preamble? Now, who might be a master of the genre—Mr Richard Graham?

Richard Graham Portrait Richard Graham (Gloucester) (Con)
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Thank you, Mr Speaker—I will seize the moment.

Part of the long-term solution is attracting and retaining more nurses. Will my right hon. Friend encourage the National Health Executive to allow the university of Gloucestershire to run pre-registration training courses for nurses so that we can attract and retain more local nurses?

Jeremy Hunt Portrait Mr Hunt
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I am happy to do that, and also to welcome the 80 new nurses in my hon. Friend’s local area over the past four years.