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Written Question
Health Services: Contracts
Tuesday 21st March 2017

Asked by: Robert Flello (Labour - Stoke-on-Trent South)

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, pursuant to the Answer of 27 January 2017 to Question 61445, on health services: contracts, if he will publish the paper referred to in that Answer with any commercially sensitive information redacted.

Answered by David Mowat

NHS England’s internal meeting papers are not routinely published.


Written Question
Health Services: Staffordshire
Monday 20th February 2017

Asked by: Robert Flello (Labour - Stoke-on-Trent South)

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what discussions he has had with North Staffordshire Clinical Care Group on lines of responsibility for cancer and end-of-life care services delivered for the Group by private sector organisations.

Answered by David Mowat

There have been no discussions between my Rt. hon. Friend the Secretary of State for Health and North Staffordshire Clinical Care Group on lines of responsibility for cancer and end of life care services.


Written Question
Health Services: Contracts
Friday 27th January 2017

Asked by: Robert Flello (Labour - Stoke-on-Trent South)

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will place in the Library copies of all reports by NHS England on the contracting out of cancer and end-of-life care in Cambridge and in North Staffordshire.

Answered by David Mowat

A paper was presented to the NHS England Regional (Midlands and East) Executive Team meeting in November 2016. This is not in the public domain as is commercially sensitive.

NHS England also advises there has been no procurement or contracting out of cancer and end-of-life care services in Cambridge.


Speech in Commons Chamber - Wed 11 Jan 2017
NHS and Social Care Funding

"One problem we face in Stoke-on-Trent is that we are about half a dozen GPs away from the whole GP system collapsing, because as GPs are retiring or leaving for other reasons, their patients are then going to the ever-smaller number of GPs that there are. Two GPs are due …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Wed 11 Jan 2017
NHS and Social Care Funding

"The Royal Stoke in my city is under intense pressure. No doubt, we will hear shortly from the Secretary of State that that is winter pressure. Winter has not really started. We have not really had a winter, yet we have been under this pressure not for a few weeks …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Wed 11 Jan 2017
NHS and Social Care Funding

"Will my hon. Friend give way?..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Tue 22 Nov 2016
National Health Service Funding

"Will my hon. Friend give way on that point?..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Tue 22 Nov 2016
National Health Service Funding

"My hon. Friend is most generous. He might have missed something. Did the Chancellor not say that he would wipe out the deficit by 2015?..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Tue 22 Nov 2016
National Health Service Funding

"In Stoke-on-Trent, the CCGs sit on the STP group. We have still not seen the report, but we have seen an executive summary. When the STP group suggests one thing, the CCG undermines it by closing community hospitals and cutting community beds. They are not working together; they are working …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Wed 16 Nov 2016
Social Care

"The sustainability and transformation plan for Staffordshire, some of which has been leaked to me, NHS England and NHS Improvement having categorically refused to make it available to Members of Parliament, shows a deficit for Staffordshire over the coming years of more than £250 million. Is that not appalling?..."
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